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Prestigious Ceremony at
Flannery O’Connor Southern Literary Trail Site
National Book Awards Finalists Announced for 2010
by Jane Thimmee, Savannah's
representative to the Southern Literary Trail
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Savannah and the Flannery O’Connor
Childhood Home hosted the much anticipated announcement, by
Pat Conroy, of the nominated finalists for this year’s
National Book Awards. Five finalists were named for each of
the four genres—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young
People’s Literature.
View video of
the ceremony.
Harold Augenbraum, executive
director of the National Book Foundation, said that this was
only the seventh time in 61 years that the awards were
announced outside of New York City. The Childhood Home
location seemed especially appropriate since O’Connor not
only won the award posthumously in 1972 for her collection
The Complete Stories, but last spring it was named
as the best work ever to win in the fiction category.
THE FINALISTS
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Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home (left)
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Fiction:
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier
in America
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
Nicole Krauss, Great House
Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
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Nonfiction:
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy:
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima,
9-11, Iraq
Patti Smith, Just Kids
Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of
Samuel Steward
Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An
Education in War
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Harold Augenbraum introduces Pat Conroy.
Photo by Geoff L. Johnson |
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Esther Shaver, owner of E. Shaver Booksellers with Casandra
King, author and wife of Pat Conroy on the O’Connor front
porch. |
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Bill
Dawers, O’Connor Childhood Home Foundation President with
author Pat Conroy preparing to announce the finalists. |
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Poetry:
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal
City
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead
James Richardson, By the Numbers
C.D. Wright, One with Others
Monica Youn, Ignatz
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Tritons in Forsyth Park Fountain |
Young People’s Literature:
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
Laura McNeal, Dark Water
Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
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Craig
Amason, executive director, O’Connor Andalusia Foundation with
Bill Dawers. |
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Some of
the finalists’ books on display.
Photo by Geoff L. Johnson |
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Harold
Augenbraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation
(center) speaking with Lila Critz. Also in photo, Matt Prickett,
founder of the Savannah Book Festival, Jerry Thimme, and Dale
Critz. |
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