Monday, November 20, 2006

National Book Award Winners for 2006 Announced

The National Book Award Winners for 2005 are listed below:

  • Fiction:
    Richard Powers
    The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

  • Young People's Literature:
    M.T. Anderson
    The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press)

  • Nonfiction:
    Timothy Egan
    The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)

  • Poetry:
    Nathaniel Mackey
    Splay Anthem (New Directions)

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