James McBride won the National
Book Award for fiction Wednesday night for "The Good Lord Bird."
Each
year the National Book Foundation presents awards to winners in four
categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.
The
four winners were announced in a ceremony in New York hosted by Mika
Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
George
Packer won the nonfiction award for "The Unwinding: An Inner History of
the New America." Mary Szybist won the poetry award for "Incarnadine:
Poems," while Cynthia Kadohata won the young people's literature award for
"The Thing About Luck."
Established
in 1950, the National Book Award is one of the most prestigious literary awards
in the United States. Past recipients include William Faulkner, Alice Walker,
Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich.
The
winners were narrowed down from a pool of 1,432 submissions. A five-judge panel of writers, literary
critics and booksellers in each category came up with a list of 10 titles
announced in September and narrowed it down to five finalists in October.
Among
this year's finalists were journalists, historians, Pulitzer Prize winners and
past National Book Award winners and finalists, including Thomas Pynchon, who
won the National Book Award in 1974 for "Gravity's Rainbow," and
Rachel Kushner, whose debut novel "Telex From Cuba" was a 2008
National Book Award finalist.
Source:CNN
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