{"id":3793,"date":"2011-11-17T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2011-11-17T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:42:57","slug":"2011-national-book-award-winners-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=3793","title":{"rendered":"2011 National Book Award Winners & Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn more about the National Book Awards here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

FICTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2011<\/p>\n\n\"The\n\"The\n\"The\n\"Binocular\n\"Salvage <\/map>\n

WINNER: Jesmyn Ward<\/a>, Salvage the Bones<\/em>
\n(Bloomsbury USA)<\/p>\n

FINALISTS:<\/strong>
\nAndrew Krivak<\/a>, The Sojourn<\/em>
\n(Bellevue Literary Press) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

T\u00e9a Obreht<\/a>, The Tiger’s Wife<\/em>
\n(Random House)<\/p>\n

Julie Otsuka<\/a>, The Buddha in the Attic<\/em>
\n(Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Edith Pearlman<\/a>, Binocular Vision<\/em>
\n(Lookout Books, an imprint of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Fiction Judges:<\/strong> Deirdre McNamer (Panel Chair), Jerome Charyn,
\nJohn Crowley, Victor LaValle, Yiyun Li<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NONFICTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\"Malcolm\n <\/map>\n

WINNER: Stephen Greenblatt<\/a>, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern<\/em>
\n(W. W. Norton & Company) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

FINALISTS:<\/strong>
\nDeborah Baker<\/a>, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism<\/em>
\n(Graywolf Press) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Gabriel<\/a>, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution<\/em>
\n(Little, Brown and Company) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Manning Marable<\/a>, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention<\/em>
\n(Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Group USA) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Lauren Redniss<\/a>, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout<\/em>
\n(It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers<\/em>) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Nonfiction Judges:<\/strong> Alice Kaplan (Panel Chair), Yunte Huang,
\nJill Lepore, Barbara Savage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

POETRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2011<\/p>\n\n\"Head\n\"The\n\"Double\n\"Tonight\n\"Devotions\" <\/map>\n

WINNER: Nikky Finney<\/a>, Head Off & Split <\/em>
\n(TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

FINALISTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yusef Komunyakaa<\/a>, The Chameleon Couch<\/em>
\n(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/p>\n

Carl Phillips<\/a>, Double Shadow<\/em>
\n(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Adrienne Rich<\/a>, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010<\/em>
\n(W.W. Norton & Company) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Bruce Smith<\/a>, Devotions<\/em>
\n(University of Chicago Press) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Poetry Judges: <\/strong>Elizabeth Alexander (Panel Chair), Thomas Sayers Ellis,
\nAmy Gerstler, Kathleen Graber, Roberto Tejada<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n <\/map>\n

\"2011<\/p>\n

WINNER: Thanhha Lai<\/a>, Inside Out & Back Again<\/em>
\n(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers<\/em>) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

FINALISTS:
\n<\/strong>Franny Billingsley<\/a>, Chime<\/em>
\n(Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc. )<\/p>\n

Debby Dahl Edwardson<\/a>, My Name Is Not Easy<\/em>
\n(Marshall Cavendish)<\/p>\n

Albert Marrin<\/a>, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy<\/em>
\n(Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children\u2019s Books) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Gary D. Schmidt<\/a>, Okay for Now<\/em>
\n(Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) – Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Young People\u2019s Literature Judges: <\/strong>Marc Aronson (Panel Chair),
\nAnn Brashares, Matt de la Pe\u00f1a, Nikki Grimes, Will Weaver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn more about the National Book Awards here. FICTION WINNER: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA) FINALISTS: Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn (Bellevue Literary Press) – Interview T\u00e9a Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (Random House) Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House) – Interview Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-awards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Zb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}