National Book Award Winners: Erdrich, Boo, Alexander, Ferry

   

Who's the Nate Silver of literary awards? Announced tonight in New York: 

FICTION

Junot Dí­az, This Is How You Lose Her

Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

winner - Louise Erdrich, The Round House [Kindle]

Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

 
 
NONFICTION
 
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

winner - Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers [Kindle]

Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson 

Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

winner -- William Alexander, Goblin Secrets [Kindle]

Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down

Eliot Schrefer, Endangered

Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

POETRY

winner - David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations [Kindle]

Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies

Tim Seibles, Fast Animal

Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic

Susan Wheeler, Meme