Sunday, November 24, 2013

James McBride wins National Book Award for fiction

The writers James McBride and George Packer have won National Book Awards at a gala event in New York, on November 20, 2013 that also honoured EL Doctorowand Maya Angelou.McBride took home the 2014 National Book Foundation fiction prize for “The Good Lord Bird”, an exploration of identity and survival during slavery. It was chosen from a shortlist of books by authors including Rachel Kushner, previous National Book Award winner Thomas Pynchon, Jhumpa Lahiri and George Saunders.
Packer won the non-fiction prize for “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America”, a story about the US that runs from 1978 to 2012 told through the lives of Americans from varying walks of life. It competed in a category dominated by historical works by Wendy Lower, Jill Lepore, Alan Taylor and Lawrence Wright.

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