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Who will win the California Book Awards?

The Commonwealth Club has narrowed the field, naming its finalists for the awards' 80th year. Winners, Californians all, will be announced the week of April 11; an awards ceremony will take place June 2. Here are the finalists for the adult categories: nonfiction: Yunte Huang ("Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History"; Don Lattin ("The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America"); and Julia Whitty ("Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean"); first fiction: Angie Chau ("Quiet as They Come"), Tim Z. Hernandez ("Breathing In Dust"), Zachary Mason ("The Lost Books of the Odyssey"), Suzanne Rivecca ("Death Is Not an Option: Stories"); fiction: Zöe Ferraris ("City of Veils"), Joan Frank ("In Envy Country: Stories"), Eric Puchner ("Model Home"), Adrienne Sharp ("The True Memoirs of Little K"), Karen Tei Yamashita ("I Hotel"); poetry: Camille T. Dungy ("Suck on the Marrow"), Judy Halebsky ("Sky=Empty"), Barbara Jane Reyes ("Diwata"), Alexandra Teague ("Mortal Geography"), Brian Turner ("Phantom Noise").

Deborah Eisenberg's

"The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg" has won this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The four finalists are Jennifer Egan ("A Visit From the Goon Squad," Jaimy Gordon ("Lord of Misrule"), Eric Puchner ("Model Home") and Brad Watson ("Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives").

"A Visit From the Goon Squad"

is also among the books that have made the long list for the Orange Prize, Britain's award for female fiction authors. Other notable authors named include Emma Donoghue ("Room"), Téa Obreht ("The Tiger's Wife"), Karen Russell ("Swamplandia!") and Nicole Strauss ("Great House").

Emma Donoghue

wrote not only the highly praised novel "Room" last year; her nonfiction work, "Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature," has been named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. The full list of finalists is at www.lambdaliterary .org.


Still in the mood to celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

Granta has published an impressive and handsome collection, edited by Anne Enright. "The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story" contains 31 entries, all by writers born in the 20th century. Sorry, no Joyce, but who can turn down the likes of Roddy Doyle, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and William Trevor?
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