National Book Awards - 2012 Winners Announced
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FICTION WINNER
Louise Erdrich, The Round House
FICTION FINALISTS
Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Dave Eggars, A Hologram for the King
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
NONFICTION WINNER
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
NONFICTION FINALISTS
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
Robert A.Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4
Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
POETRY WINNER
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
POETRY FINALISTS
Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies
Tim Seibles, Fast Animal
Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
Susan Wheeler, Meme
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE WINNER
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE FINALISTS
Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down
Eliot Schrefer, Endangered
Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal -- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

