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The 2004 National Book Award Winners
The winners of the 2004 National Book Awards were announced November 17, at a ceremony at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The annual awards are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize achievements in four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature. The night's ceremonies included the presentation of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Judy Blume.
This year's winners by category are:
FICTION:
Lily Tuck, THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY (HarperCollins)
NONFICTION:
Kevin Boyle, ARC OF JUSTICE: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Henry Holt)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:
Pete Hautman, GODLESS (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
POETRY:
Jean Valentine, DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan University Press)
The 2004 National Book Award Finalists
The finalists for the 2004 National Book Awards were recently announced by Garrison Keillor, who will host the National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony in Manhattan on November 17th.
Among the Finalists are a first novelist, two distinguished historians, five prolific and established poets, two previous Finalists --- including the poet Donald Justice, who died earlier this year --- and the 9/11 Commission. All five Fiction Finalists are women who live in New York City. Also, five small presses have books on the list of Finalists.
FICTION:
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, MADELEINE IS SLEEPING (Harcourt)
Christine Schutt, FLORIDA (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)
Joan Silber, IDEAS OF HEAVEN: A Ring of Stories (W.W. Norton & Company)
Lily Tuck, THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY (HarperCollins)
Kate Walbert, OUR KIND: A Novel in Stories (Scribner)
NONFICTION:
Kevin Boyle, ARC OF JUSTICE: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Henry Holt)
David Hackett Fischer, WASHINGTON'S CROSSING (Oxford University Press)
Jennifer Gonnerman, LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Stephen Greenblatt, WILL IN THE WORLD: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (W.W. Norton & Company)
The 9/11 Commission, THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States-Authorized Edition (W.W. Norton & Company)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:
Deb Caletti, HONEY, BABY, SWEETHEART (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Pete Hautman, GODLESS (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Laban Carrick Hill, HARLEM STOMP!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown & Company)
Shelia P. Moses, THE LEGEND OF BUDDY BUSH (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division)
Julie Anne Peters, LUNA: A Novel (Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown & Company)
POETRY:
William Heyen, SHOAH TRAIN (Etruscan Press)
Donald Justice, COLLECTED POEMS (Alfred A. Knopf)
Carl Phillips, THE REST OF LOVE (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Cole Swensen, GOEST (Alice James Books)
Jean Valentine, DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan University Press)
More information about The National Book Awards can be found at http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html.
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