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Acclaimed novelist Pat Conroy will announce the 2010 National Book Award Finalists on Oct. 13 at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah.
A full rundown on the National Book Awards and the Conroy announcement can be found here.
Although the National Book Foundation notes that Conroy is a Georgia native, we of course also know that his roots in Beaufort are just as deep and that he is one of Beaufort's favorite sons.
In case you missed it, Conroy and his daughter, Melissa, recently were interviewed by Lowcountry Weekly. Find it here.
Updated Oct. 13: WSAV has a brief on today's awards presentation that you can find here. We'll update with the winners when we see them.
Oct. 13 p.m. update: Publishers Weekly has the list of National Book Award Finalists announced by Pat Conroy this morning in Savannah.
Borders.com also has the nominees along with links to purchase the titles.
And the nominees are:
Fiction
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America
Alfred A. Knopf
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
McPherson & Co.
Nicole Krauss, Great House
W.W. Norton & Co.
Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
Coffee House Press
Nonfiction
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group
John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
W.W. Norton & Co. and The New Press
Patti Smith, Just Kids
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
Doubleday
Poetry
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City
Princeton University Press
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead
Viking Penguin
James Richardson, By the Numbers
Copper Canyon Press
C.D. Wright, One with Others
Copper Canyon Press
Monica Youn, Ignatz
Four Way Books
Young People’s Literature
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
Little, Brown & Co.
Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Laura McNeal, Dark Water
Alfred A. Knopf
Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
