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National Book Awards Finalists Announced

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Our colleagues at Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud hosted today's announcement of the 20 finalists for this year's National Book Awards.

They report that the nominees are:

National Book Awards Finalists

Young People's Literature

Author — Title — Publisher

-- Debby Dahl Edwardson — My Name is Not Easy — Marshall Cavendish

-- Thanhha Lai — Inside Out & Back Again --Harper/HarperCollins

-- Albert Marrin — Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy / Alfred A. Knopf

-- Lauren Myracle — Shine — Amulet/Abrams

-- Gary D. Schmidt — Okay for Now — Clarion/HMH

Poetry

Author — Title — Publisher

-- Nikky Finney — Head Off & Split — Triquarterly/Northwestern University

-- Yusef Komunyakaa — The Chameleon Couch — FSG

-- Carl Phillips — Double Shadow — FSG

-- Adrienne Rich — Tonight No Poetry Will Serve — W.W. Norton & Company

-- Bruce Smith — Devotions — University of Chicago Press

Non-Fiction

Author — Title — Publisher

-- Deborah Baker — The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism — Graywolf Press

-- Mary Gabriel — Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution — Little, Brown

-- Stephen Greenblatt — The Swerve: How the World Became Modern --- W.W. Norton

-- Manning Marable — Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention — Viking

-- Lauren Redniss — Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout — It: HarperCollins

Fiction

Author — Title — Publisher

-- Andrew Krivak — The Sojourn — Bellevue Literary Press

-- Tea Obreht — The Tiger's Wife -- Random House

-- Julie Otsuka — The Buddha in the Attic — Knopf

-- Edith Pearlman — Binocular Vision — Lookout

-- Jesmyn Ward — Salvage the Bones — Bloomsbury USA

The awards are administered by the nonprofit National Book Foundation. The winners are due to be announced in mid-November.

There's an Oregon Public Broadcasting slideshow about the awards' history, here.

The Associated Press sums up this year's nomination news with this:

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