2010 National Book Award Winners

The National Book Foundation recently honored the 2010 winners of the National Book Awards. Below are the winners, the finalists, and interviews with each as found on the NBF website.

STATS
In 2010, there were 1,115 books submitted for the National Book Awards.
The number of books by genre:

• Fiction: 302
• Nonfiction: 435
• Poetry: 148
• Young People’s Literature: 230

FICTION

WINNER: Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.) - Interview

Finalists:
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview

Nicole Krauss, Great House (W.W. Norton & Co.) - Interview

Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) - Interview

Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel (Coffee House Press) - Interview

Fiction Judges: Andrei Codrescu, Samuel R. Delany, Sabina Murray, 
Joanna Scott, Carolyn See

NONFICTION

WINNER: Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) -Interview

Finalists:
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
(Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group) - Interview

John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
(W.W. Norton & Co/The New Press ) - Interview

Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Interview

Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
(Doubleday) - Interview

Nonfiction Judges: Blake Bailey, Marjorie Garber, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Seth Lerer, Sallie Tisdale

POETRY

WINNER: Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Penguin Books) - Interview

Finalists:
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press) - Interview

James Richardson, By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press) - Interview

C.D. Wright, One with Others (Copper Canyon Press) - Interview

Monica Youn, Ignatz (Four Way Books) - Interview

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) - Interview

Finalists:
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown & Co.) - Interview

Laura McNeal, Dark Water (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview

Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) - Interview

Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
(Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) - Interview

Young People’s Literature Judges: Laban Carrick Hill, Kelly Link, 
Tor Seidler, Hope Anita Smith, Sara Zarr

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