2008 Woodie Awards
The Nominations are in for the National Book Awards
Robert Hoffman
Issue date: 11/6/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Every year, the National Book Foundation recognizes noteworthy entries into the literary world with the National Book Awards. Finalists in several categories are announced during October, National Book month.
The winners in each category are then selected from the finalists by the foundation as representative of the best work done in that area for the year. The National Book Awards have been given since 1950, and since the establishment of the Nation Book Foundation in the spring of 1989, there has been an added focus on community outreach and literacy promotion, as well as recognition of literary accomplishment. The National Book Foundation runs a number of programs aimed at inspiring interest and activity in literature amongst children, teens, and adults.
The finalists for 2006 come in four different categories. The categories are fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and young people's literature. There are five finalists in each category, with one finally being selected as the award winner for the year. The finalists in fiction are "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski, "A Disorder Peculiar to the Country" by Ken Kalfus, "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers, "Eat the Document" by Dana Spiotta, and "The Zero" by Jess Walter.
The poetry finalists are "Averno" by Louise Glück, "Chromatic" by H.L. Hix, "Angle of Yaw" by Ben Lerner, "Splay Anthem" by Nathaniel Mackey, and "Capacity" by James McMichael.
The nonfiction finalists are "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68" by Taylor Branch, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl" by Timothy Egan, "Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present" by Peter Hessler, and "Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright.
The finalists in young people's literature are "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson, "Keturah and Lord Death" by Martine Leavitt, "Sold" by Patricia McCormick, "The Rules of Survival" by Nancy Werlin, and "American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang.
There will be a reading of the 2006 National Book Award finalists on November 11, followed by a dinner on the 15. The winners will be announced at the November 15th dinner. Past winners of the National Book Awards include Gore Vidal, John Cheever, Stephen Jay Gould, John Updike, Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, and Allen Ginsberg.
The winners in each category are then selected from the finalists by the foundation as representative of the best work done in that area for the year. The National Book Awards have been given since 1950, and since the establishment of the Nation Book Foundation in the spring of 1989, there has been an added focus on community outreach and literacy promotion, as well as recognition of literary accomplishment. The National Book Foundation runs a number of programs aimed at inspiring interest and activity in literature amongst children, teens, and adults.
The finalists for 2006 come in four different categories. The categories are fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and young people's literature. There are five finalists in each category, with one finally being selected as the award winner for the year. The finalists in fiction are "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski, "A Disorder Peculiar to the Country" by Ken Kalfus, "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers, "Eat the Document" by Dana Spiotta, and "The Zero" by Jess Walter.
The poetry finalists are "Averno" by Louise Glück, "Chromatic" by H.L. Hix, "Angle of Yaw" by Ben Lerner, "Splay Anthem" by Nathaniel Mackey, and "Capacity" by James McMichael.
The nonfiction finalists are "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68" by Taylor Branch, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl" by Timothy Egan, "Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present" by Peter Hessler, and "Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright.
The finalists in young people's literature are "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson, "Keturah and Lord Death" by Martine Leavitt, "Sold" by Patricia McCormick, "The Rules of Survival" by Nancy Werlin, and "American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang.
There will be a reading of the 2006 National Book Award finalists on November 11, followed by a dinner on the 15. The winners will be announced at the November 15th dinner. Past winners of the National Book Awards include Gore Vidal, John Cheever, Stephen Jay Gould, John Updike, Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, and Allen Ginsberg.
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