10/16/12

NH Poet Among NBA Finalists

The twenty Finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature were announced last week.  The Finalists are:

FICTION

Junot Dí­az, This Is How You Lose Her
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 

Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
McSweeney's Books

Louise Erdrich, The Round House
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
Little, Brown and Company


NONFICTION

Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
Doubleday

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Random House

Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4
Knopf

Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press

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


POETRY

David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
University of Chicago Press

Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies  (Former NH Poet Laureate!)
Southern Illinois University Press

Tim Seibles, Fast Animal
Etruscan Press

Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

University of Iowa Press


YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down
Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Eliot Schrefer, Endangered
Scholastic

Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build----  and Steal-- -   the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press


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