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National Book Award Finalists Announced
by Lynn Andriani
Author Scott Turow announced this year’s National Book Award finalists in Chicago earlier today. The finalists include two previous NBA winners and three debut novelists. Among the fiction finalists are Peter Matthiessen, a 1979 winner for nonfiction, for his novel Shadow Country (Modern Library); and Marilynne Robinson, a finalist in 1983 and 1989, for her novel Home (FSG). Two of the fiction finalists are first novelists: Rachel Kushner for Telex from Cuba (Scribner) and Salvatore Scibona for The End (Graywolf). The third writer nominated for a debut novel is Kathi Appelt in the young people's literature category. Journalist Jane Mayer; poets Frank Bidart, Mark Doty and Richard Howard; and YA fiction writer Laurie Halse Anderson have all been finalists in previous years and are up for the award again this year. In poetry, Richard Howard is up for the award for Without Saying (Turtle Point), after having won it in 1983 for his translation, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. In the nonfiction category, American history and the war on terror are major themes. Read on...

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