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National Book Awards finalists announced

Here are the finalists:

Fiction

Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn

Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision

Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

Nonfiction

Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout

Poetry

Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split

Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch

Carl Phillips, Double Shadow

Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010

Bruce Smith, Devotions

Young People's Literature

Franny Billingsley, Chime

Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name Is Not Easy

Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again

Albert Marrin, Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy Lauren Myracle, Shine

Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

For more information about the 2011 Finalists and upcoming National Book Awards Week events, visit www.nationalbook.org.

 
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