National Book Award winners 2009 - complete list (VIDEO)

National Book Award winners 2009 - Here, covers of the finalists.
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National Book Award winners 2009 - complete list -- The 60th National Book award winners (see list and photo video below) were announced at a dinner Wednesday night in New York. The winners are:

BEST OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS - FICTION (special poll taken online from previous fiction winners; over 10,000 votes cast; celebrates 60th anniversary of the NBA):

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS(Lifetime Achievement):

Gore Vidal

LITERARIAN AWARD

Dave Eggers

FICTION

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann (Random House)

NON-FICTION

The First Tycoon:  The Epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T. J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)

POETRY

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, by Keith Waldrop (University of California Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Philip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

See the list of all of the finalists as well as the list of judges for each category here.

The awards are sponsored by the National Book Foundation.  The ceremony was held at Cipriani Wall Street and was hosted by Andy Borowitz. A taped presentation of the award ceremony will air November 21 on BOOK-TV.

See Also:

National Book Award finalists announced for 2009

Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2009 goes to Bill Cosby

Germany's Herta Muller wins 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature

Books on Film

Young Adult Pop Culture Examiner

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