The National Book Awards were given out last night here in New York, and Louise Erdrich took home the prize for fiction for “The Round House,” a novel about racial injustice. List of winners below, a full report from the gala
HERE.
Young People's Literature:
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
(Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Poetry:
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
(University of Chicago Press)
Nonfiction:
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
(Random House)
Fiction:
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
See all of the nominees
HERE.
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