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"Obviously, 'Freedom' is the big book of the year, but the question is what the National Book Awards are supposed to honor," said Harold Augenbraum, [...]

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(Los Angeles Times) By Carolyn Kellogg Los Angeles Times The 20 finalists for the 2010 National Book Awards were announced Wednesday in Savannah, Ga., [...]

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By Bob hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Even though his money is on another poet, Terrance Hayes "won't turn down" this year's National Book Award for Poetry [...]

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As a general rule, booksellers and publishers think the Booker has a greater influence on American sales than even the National Book Award, its stateside [...]

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The buzz surrounding the finalists for this year's National Book Awards has focused more on the author left off the list than the ones who made it on. [...]

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"Obviously, 'Freedom' is the big book of the year, but the question is what the National Book Awards are supposed to honor," Harold Augenbraum, [...]

The National Book Award is awarded by the National Book Foundation. Categories include Fiction National Book Award for Young People's Literature [...]

13 Oct 2010 This morning the National Book Foundation (NBF) announced the finalists for the 2010 National Book Awards. Novelist Pat Conroy made the [...]

13 Oct 2010 The National Book Award finalists announcement Wednesday morning in Savannah, Ga., contained one major surprise: The acclaimed bestselling [...]

The entry deadline for the 2010 National Book Awards has passed; we are no longer accepting new entries. If you are a publisher who has entered books for [...]

13 Oct 2010 It's the Great American Snub. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, the year's most highly praised and talked about literary novel, was not among the [...]

13 Oct 2010 New York-based authors Nicole Krauss and Peter Carey were among the National Book Awards finalists announced on Wednesday, but celebrated [...]

3 Nov 2009 The National Book Critics Circle, founded at the Algonquin Round Table in National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announcement: [...]

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Despite many glowing reviews, "Freedom" wasn't on a fiction list that included books by Nicole Krauss, Peter Carey, Lionel Shriver, Jaimy Gordon and Karen Tei Yamshita. [...]

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2010 National Book Award Finalists! Ok, guys: it's totally on! The Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature are out, and I haven't read a single one of them Ship Breaker , Paolo Bacigalupi [...]

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Pittsburgh-based poet Terrance Hayes has been nominated for a National Book Award for his collection Lighthead. He is one of five finalists for poetry along with C.D. Wright, Kathleen Graber, James Richardson, and Monica Youn. [...]

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Chernow, winner of the 1990 National Book Award for his first book, "The House of Morgan," writes immensely readable books, thanks to a novelist's mastery [...]

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National Book Award finalists announced. Stay tuned for the big upset. Fiction: Peter Carey, PARROTT & OLIVIER IN AMERICA (read it, liked it!) Nicole Krauss, GREAT HOUSE (hear good things) Lionel Shriver, SO MUCH FOR THAT (hear good [...]

by Miriam Years ago I found myself positively gleeful at the news that Oscar Hijuelos had won a Pulitzer for his gorgeous novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. I’d not long before finished reading the book and was foisting it upon everyone and anyone—people would read it just to shut me up. Of [...]

The National Book Award finalists announcement Wednesday morning in Savannah, Ga., contained one major surprise: The acclaimed bestselling novel by Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, failed to make the list. [...]

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Nominations for this year's National Book Award will be announced this week and while I've already talked about my picks for the Fiction category,there is a nonfiction title that I'm keeping my fingers crossed for. [...]

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National Book Awards shortlists. The NBA shortlists have gone up. Some great poetry titles and poets here, including my friend James Richardson, who kindly blurbed may latest book. Fiction and non-fiction look good too. [...]

2009 National Book Awards Dinner Master of Ceremonies He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the first-ever National Press Club Award for humor in 2004. [...]

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The 2010 National Book Award nominees were announced today in Savannah, Georgia, at the childhood home of 1972 winner Flannery O'Connor. A notable surprise in the eyes of many was the exclusion among the finalists of Jonathan Franzen, [...]

John Dower, a National Book Award winner in 1999 for his study of post-World War II Japan "Embracing Defeat," was a nonfiction nominee for "Cultures of War," which [...]