National Book Foundation announces this year’s ‘5 Under 35’

13 September 2013 Books+Publishing

In the US, the National Book Foundation has announced the writers selected for this year’s ‘5 Under 35’ program, and for the first time in the program’s eight-year history, the five young writers are all women. The five writers and the previous National Book Award winners and finalists who selected them are: Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans (to be published in the US by W W Norton in February 2014), selected by Jesmyn Ward; NoViolet Bulawayo, author of We Need New Names (Chatto & Windus), selected by Junot Díaz; Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist (Orion), selected by Louise Erdich; Daisy Hildyward, author of Hunters in the Snow (Jonathan Cape), selected by Kevin Powers; and Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back (to be published in the US by Doubleday in 2014), selected by Ben Fountain. Each of the five writers will receive a cash prize of US$1000 (A$1079) and will be honoured at a party during National Book Awards Week in November. For more information about the writers, visit the National Book Foundation website here.

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