NBF Honors Five Young Authors
-- Publishers Weekly, 9/24/2008 7:30:00 AM
The National Book Foundation will honor five writers under 35 November 17 as part of the kick-off to National Book Week that culminates with the National Book Awards on November 19. The five writers have each been selected by a previous NBA finalist or winner as someone whose work is particularly promising and exciting and is among the best of a new generation of writers. The 2008 “5 Under 35” are:
Matthew Eck, The Farther Shore (Milkweed Editions, 2007) selected by Joshua Ferris, 2007 Fiction Finalist for Then We Came to the End; Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking Press, 2008) selected by Jonathan Franzen, 2001 Fiction Winner for The Corrections; Sana Krasikov, One More Year: Stories (Spiegel & Grau, 2008) selected by Francine Prose, 2000 Fiction Finalist for Blue Angel; Nam Le, The Boat (Knopf, 2008) selected by Mary Gaitskill, 2005 Fiction Finalist for Veronica; and Fiona Maazel, Last Last Chance (FSG, 2008) selected by Jim Shepard, 2007 Finalist for Like You’d Understand, Anyway.
