{"id":3202,"date":"2012-11-15T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:45","slug":"2012-national-book-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/15\/2012-national-book-award-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 National Book Award Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/11\/2012-national-book-award-winners-announced.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0062065246.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/11\/2012-national-book-award-winners-announced.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1400067553.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Book Award winners for 2012 have been announced. The big prize for fiction went to <strong>Louise Erdrich<\/strong> for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062065246\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">The Round House<\/a><\/em>, a novel one critic called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/14\/books\/review\/the-round-house-by-louise-erdrich.html\">something of a departure for Erdrich<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as she \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hits the bedrock truth about a whole community.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/books\/titles\/162085202\/the-round-house#excerpt\">excerpt<\/a>). She was a National Book Critics Circle winner for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061787426\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Love Medicine<\/a><\/em> way back in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The non-fiction award went to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1400067553\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity<\/a><\/em> by <strong>Katherine Boo<\/strong> (Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/10\/written-through-tears-the-millions-interviews-katherine-boo.html\">our illuminating interview<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Poetry award was won by <strong>David Ferry<\/strong> for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0226244881\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Bewilderment<\/a><\/em>. The winner in the Young People\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Literature category was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1442427264\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\"><em>Goblin Secrets<\/em><\/a> by <strong>William Alexander<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/11\/2012-national-book-award-winners-announced.html\">The Millions : 2012 National Book Award Winners Announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Book Award winners for 2012 have been announced: Louise Erdrich [Fiction], Katherine Boo [Non-fiction], David Ferry [Poetry], William Alexander [Young People&#8217;s Lit].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[554,737,738,69],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-554","tag-boo","tag-erdrich","tag-national-book-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}