National Book Award Winners Announced

The National Book Award Winners for 2005 are listed below:

• Fiction:
  William T. Vollmann, Europe Central (Viking)
  
  
• Nonfiction:
  Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (Alfred A. Knopf)
  
  
• Poetry:
  W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
  
  
• Young People's Literature:
  Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks (Alfred A. Knopf)