2006 National Book Award Finalists Named
The 20 finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards have been announced. The Awards are presented annually by the National Book Foundation.
Among the Finalists is Gene Luen Yang, a Chinese-American comic artist, whose graphic novel, American Born Chinese, is a Finalist in the category of Young People's Literature, and Mark Z. Danielewski, a Fiction Finalist, whose novel Only Revolutions is told in parallel free verse and breaks with conventions of traditional storytelling. In the Non-Fiction category, Taylor Branch is nominated for On Canaan's Edge, his third volume about Martin Luther King, Jr. Two nominated works in this category-Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower and Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City-focus on 9/11 and Iraq, respectively. Two Fiction finalists-Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and Jess Walter's The Zero, use 9/11 as a point of departure, as well.This year's winners will be announced on November 15th. You can see a list of the winners from last year here.
Several of this year's Finalists have been Finalists in previous years including Richard Powers (a Finalist in 1993), Taylor Branch (a Finalist in 1989), Louise Gluck (a Finalist in 1992 and 1999), and M.T. Anderson (a Finalist in 2002).
Posted on November 3, 2006
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