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National Book Award Finalists Announced In Portland

OPB | Oct. 12, 2011 4:04 a.m. | Updated: July 17, 2012 1:03 a.m. | Portland, OR

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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:

  • "My Name is Not Easy" by Debby Dahl Edwardson (Marshall Cavendish)

  • "Inside Out & Back Again" by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins)

  • "Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy" by Albert Marrin (Alfred A. Knopf)

  • "Shine" by Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books, an Imprint of Abrams)

  • "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:

  • "Head Off & Split" by Nikky Finney (Triquarterly Books /Northwestern Universty Press)

  • "The Chameleon Couch" by Yusef Komunyakaa (FSG)

  • "Double Shadow" by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Groux)

  • "Tonight No Poetry Will Serve" by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton & Company)

  • "Devotions" by Bruce Smith (University of Chicago Press)

Nonfiction Finalists were announced by Sallie Tisdale.The finalists are:

  • "The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism" by Deborah Baker (Graywolf Press)

  • "Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" by Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown and Company)

  • "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt(W.W. Norton) 

  • "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Manning Marable —  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking)

  • "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:

  • "The Sojourn" by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press)

  • "The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht (Random House)

  • "The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka (Alfred A. Knopf)

  • "Binocular Vision" by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books)

  • "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.

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