The National Book Award is given annually to an American-born author in each of the following categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. The winners will be selected in November. The Fiction finalists are:
- Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski
- Varieties of Disturbance, by Lydia Davis
- Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris
- Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson
- Like You’d Understand, Anyway, by Jim Shepard
View the rest of the finalists at the National Book Award website.
Also, the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature was announced-- British author Doris Lessing. At age 88, Lessing is the oldest person to win the Literature award. She is most famous for her 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook.
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