This year’s Fiction list includes Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient Junot Díaz, who also served as a National Book Award Fiction Judge in 2009; two-time National Book Award Finalist, for Fiction in 1999 and for Young People’s Literature in 2001, Louise Erdrich; recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2009 Literarian Award, Dave Eggers; Texas-based author of a previous short-story collection, Ben Fountain; and debut novelist Kevin Powers.
The Twenty National Book Award Finalists Revealed
This year’s Fiction list includes Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient Junot Díaz, who also served as a National Book Award Fiction Judge in 2009; two-time National Book Award Finalist, for Fiction in 1999 and for Young People’s Literature in 2001, Louise Erdrich; recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2009 Literarian Award, Dave Eggers; Texas-based author of a previous short-story collection, Ben Fountain; and debut novelist Kevin Powers.