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October 11, 2006

 

National Book Award Finalists Announced

Award season is in full swing now. The Booker was awarded yesterday, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature will be announced tomorrow or soon after, but today is all about the finalists for the National Book Award. As Ed remarked, in so many words, for the second year in a row, the judges have managed to deliver a crop of fiction finalists that satisfyingly occupy the sweet spot between obscurity and being, well, too obvious. On to the finalists in all categories, and, where available, excerpts from the books.

Fiction:

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Non-fiction:

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Poetry:

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Young People's Literature:

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- C. Max Magee @ 5:31 PM ~ comments: 0 ~ Links to this post

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