The 2011 National Book Award winners have been announced. Here they are:
Fiction: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)
Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Company)
Poetry : Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)
Young People’s Literature: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
via The Rumpus.net.
Here’s a list of the finalists in all four categories…
Fiction:
Nonfiction:
Poetry:
Young People’s Literature:
via The Millions
YPL = Mockingbird by Katherine Erskine (Philomel Books)
Poetry = Lighthead by Terrance Hayes (Penguin)
Non-fiction = Just us Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco)
Fiction = Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (McPherson & Co)
via nationalbook.org
Here are the National Book Award Nominees, for 2010:
Fiction
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Alfred A. Knopf)
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.)
Nicole Krauss, Great House (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel (Coffee House Press)
Fiction Judges: Andrei Codrescu, Samuel R. Delany, Sabina Murray,
Joanna Scott, Carolyn See
Nonfiction
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
(Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group)John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
(W.W. Norton & Co/The New Press )Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
(Doubleday)Nonfiction Judges: Blake Bailey, Marjorie Garber, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Seth Lerer, Sallie Tisdale
Poetry
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Viking Penguin)
James Richardson, By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press)
C.D. Wright, One with Others (Copper Canyon Press)
Monica Youn, Ignatz (Four Way Books)
Poetry Judges: Rae Armantrout, Cornelius Eady, Linda Gregerson,
Jeffrey McDaniel, Brenda Shaughnessy
Young People’s Literature
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown & Co.)
Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
(Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)Laura McNeal, Dark Water (Alfred A. Knopf)
Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)Young People’s Literature Judges:Laban Carrick Hill, Kelly Link,
Tor Seidler, Hope Anita Smith, Sara Zarr
For more info, see http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2010.html