Images from the 2010 National Book Awards Medal Ceremony and Finalists Reading
FICTION
WINNER:
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.)
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Finalists:
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Alfred A. Knopf)
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> Watch readingNicole Krauss, Great House (W.W. Norton & Co.)
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> Watch readingLionel Shriver, So Much for That
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
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> Watch readingKaren Tei Yamashita, I Hotel (Coffee House Press)
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Fiction Judges:
Andrei Codrescu, Samuel R. Delany, Sabina Murray, Joanna Scott, Carolyn See
NONFICTION
WINNER:
Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
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Finalists:
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
(Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group)
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> Watch readingJohn W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
(W.W. Norton & Co/The New Press ) -
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> Watch readingJustin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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> Watch readingMegan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
(Doubleday)
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Nonfiction Judges:
Blake Bailey, Marjorie Garber, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Seth Lerer, Sallie Tisdale
POETRY
WINNER:
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Penguin Books)
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Finalists:
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press) -
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> InterviewC.D. Wright, One with Others (Copper Canyon Press) -
> InterviewMonica Youn, Ignatz (Four Way Books) -
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Poetry Judges:
Rae Armantrout, Cornelius Eady, Linda Gregerson, Jeffrey McDaniel, Brenda Shaughnessy
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
WINNER:
Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
(Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
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Finalists:
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown & Co.)
> InterviewLaura McNeal, Dark Water (Alfred A. Knopf)
> InterviewWalter Dean Myers, Lockdown
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
> InterviewRita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
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Young People’s Literature Judges:
Laban Carrick Hill, Kelly Link, Tor Seidler, Hope Anita Smith, Sara Zarr
2010 MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS RECIPIENT
TOM WOLFE
2010 National Book Award Master of Ceremonies
Andy Borowitz
Opening Monologue:
Andy
Borowitz is an author, comedian, satirist and film actor whose
work regularly appears in The New Yorker and The
Huffington Post. He is also the creator of the award-winning
satirical website BorowitzReport.com,
which has millions of readers worldwide. As a performer, he
has played to sold-out houses from coast to coast and has
made countless radio, television and film appearances, including
in Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda. His onscreen
credits include winning the NAACP Image Award for The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, starring Will Smith, as well
as producing the Oscar-nominated film Pleasantville.
He wrote this summer’s comedy hit, Dinner for Schmucks,
starring Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd. The author of six books,
he is a two-time finalist for The Thurber Prize for American
Humor and the first-ever winner of the National Press Club’s
award for humor writing. Most recently, he edited an upcoming
Library of America anthology on the hundred funniest writers
in America.
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