National Book Award 2014 winners announced

21 November 2014 Books+Publishing

In the US, the winners of the 2014 National Book Award have been announced. The fiction award was presented to Redeployment (Phil Klay, Canongate), a short-story collection about US soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nonfiction award went to Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Evan Osnos, Bodley Head), about the lives of Chinese people in modern China. Faithful and Virtuous Night (Louise Glück, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) won the poetry prize and the young people’s literature award went to Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson, Nancy Paulsen Books). The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was awarded to Ursula K Le Guin. The Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community was awarded to Kyle Zimmer. The winners each receive US$10,000 (A$11,600) and a bronze sculpture and the finalists receive US$1000 (A$1160). The annual awards aim to ‘enhance the cultural value of great writing in America’. For more information about the award click here.

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