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Monday, October 20, 2008

National Book Awards Finalists

The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2008 National Book Awards. The fiction list is:

Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)
Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner)
Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)
Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press)

To see the nominees in Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature, go to the 2008 Awards page.

1 comment:

MOGarm said...

And the winner is:

Peter Matthiessen for Shadow Country.