National Book Award finalists announced

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National Book Award finalists announced

Oct 13 2010

The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Titles in the running for the Fiction award include Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss's Great House and Lionel Shriver's So Much for That.

Nonfiction includes Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Cultures of War by John W Dower.

A full list of finalists for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and YA literature can be found at the link below. The winners will be announced on November 17.

Source: Publishers Weekly

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