11.17.2010

National Book Award Winner Announced Tonight



Big news kids! Tonight the National Book Award winner will be announced and four of the five nominees are women:

Nicole Krauss, Great House
Lionel Shriver, So Much For That
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule

Hopefully this shuts Jodi Picoult up for awhile. NPR books and I are on it:

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Yeah! RT @: Lots of women on that list. Take note @ RT @ 2010 National Book Award Nominees

4 comments:

  1. The finalists were actually announced October 13, but the winners will be announced tonight. It is nice to see women (and small presses) so well represented.

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  2. Sesh! Thanks for the heads up :)

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  3. I do not know any of those writers. Does that make me a bad person?

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  4. Ben, Considering you've admitted that you're not a huge fan of female authors, and 4 of 5 are female, I'n not surprised. And no, it doesn't make you a bad person.

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