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National Book Awards Results Announced
The winners of the 2006 National Book Awards were announced November 15, 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 poet Adrienne Rich and the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Robert Silvers and, posthumously, to Barbara Epstein, co-founders of The New York Review of Books.This year's winners are:
Fiction - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (FSG)
Nonfiction - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin)
Poetry - Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey (New Directions)
Young People's Literature - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick)