National Book Awards Announced

The 2011 National Book Awards were presented Wednesday the 16th.  The winners are:

• Thanhha Lai for Inside Out & Back Again (Young People’s Literature
• Nikky Finney for Head Off & Split (Poetry)
• Stephen Greenblatt for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Nonfiction)
• Jesmyn Ward for Salvage the Bones (Fiction)

All the finalists are listed by the National Book Foundation.  There are more details on the awards dinner in the stories in Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Times.