The National Book Awards winners were announced last night in Manhattan. Fran Lebowitz, writer and humorist, was the evening's host. Winners each receive a bronze sculpture and $10,000, although the award's greatest benefit is often in increased sales, especially when little-known authors are suddenly thrust into the spotlight.
Fiction: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Powers tells the story of a youg man who develops a rare brain disorder after an automobilie
accident.
Nonfiction: The Worst Hard Times: The Untold Story of Those Who Surved the Great American Dust bowl by Timothy Egan
Egan gives an account of the dust storms that descended on the Great Plains during the
Depression.
Young People's Literature: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: "The Pox Party" by M. T. anderson
Poetry: Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey
In case you have forgotten, last year's fiction winner was Europe Central by William T. Vollmann. Joan Didion won the nonfiction prize for her memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking.
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