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Winners of 2013 National Book Awards announced
Source: CNN, 11-21-13
- James McBride wins for “The Good Lord Bird”
- The National Book Foundation presents awards to winners in four categories
- Established in 1950, the accolade is one of the most prestigious U.S. literary awards
Fiction
Rachel Kushner, “The Flamethrowers”
Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Lowland”
James McBride, “The Good Lord Bird” (WINNER)
Thomas Pynchon, “Bleeding Edge”
George Saunders, “Tenth of December”
Nonfiction
Jill Lepore, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”
Wendy Lower, “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields”
George Packer, “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America” (WINNER)
Alan Taylor, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832”
Lawrence Wright, “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief”
Poetry
Frank Bidart, “Metaphysical Dog”
Lucie Brock-Broido, “Stay, Illusion”
Adrian Matejka, “The Big Smoke”
Matt Rasmussen, “Black Aperture”
Mary Szybist, “Incarnadine: Poems” (WINNER)
Young people’s literature
Kathi Appelt, “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”
Cynthia Kadohata, “The Thing About Luck” (WINNER)
Tom McNeal, “Far Far Away”
Meg Rosoff, “Picture Me Gone”
Gene Luen Yang, “Boxers & Saints”
