National Book Awards 2008

I just found out that Mark Doty has won the National Book Award for poetry for 2008 (interview) for his book, Fire to Fire - New and Selected Poems. I had seen this book at the Boston public library last month and meant to pick it up soon. Now I will have to!

Other finalists include:

Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival - Interview
Reginald Gibbons, Creatures of a Day - Interview
Richard Howard, Without Saying - Interview
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler - Interview

Award winners (and finalists) in Fiction and Non-Fiction categories include:

FICTION:

WINNER: Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country - Interview

Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project - Interview Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba - Interview Marilynne Robinson, Home - Interview Salvatore Scibona, The End - Interview

NON-FICTION: WINNER: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family -Interview

Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War - Interview Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals - Interview Jim Sheeler, Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives - Interview Joan Wickersham, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order - Interview