The 2011 finalists for the National Book Awards were announced today during a special broadcast of Think Out Loud this morning. The show is a partnership between OPB, Literary Arts and the National Book Foundation.
Young People's Literature Finalists were announced by Virginia Euwer Wolff. The finalists are:
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"My Name is Not Easy" by Debby Dahl Edwardson (Marshall Cavendish)
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"Inside Out & Back Again" by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins)
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"Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy" by Albert Marrin (Alfred A. Knopf)
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"Shine" by Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books, an Imprint of Abrams)
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"Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- "Chime" by Franny Billingsley (this finalist was added after the broadcast)
Poetry Finalists were announced by Vern Rutsala.The finalists are:
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"Head Off & Split" by Nikky Finney (Triquarterly Books /Northwestern Universty Press)
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"The Chameleon Couch" by Yusef Komunyakaa (FSG)
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"Double Shadow" by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Groux)
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"Tonight No Poetry Will Serve" by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton & Company)
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"Devotions" by Bruce Smith (University of Chicago Press)
Nonfiction Finalists were announced by Sallie Tisdale.The finalists are:
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"The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism" by Deborah Baker (Graywolf Press)
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"Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" by Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown and Company)
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"The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt(W.W. Norton)
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"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Manning Marable — Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking)
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"Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout" by Lauren Redniss (It Books: An Imprint of HarperCollins)
Fiction Finalists were announced by Charles Johnson.The finalists are:
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"The Sojourn" by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press)
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"The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht (Random House)
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"The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka (Alfred A. Knopf)
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"Binocular Vision" by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books)
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"Salvage the Bones" by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury)
You can learn more about the finalists, watch the announcement, and read comments from the live blog at www.opb.org/nationalbookawards.
