2008 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Posted on October 15, 2008
The National Book Award finalists were announced today. The winners will be announced on November 19, 2008. The Fiction Award Finalists are:
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)
- Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner)
- Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)
- Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press)
You can see the announcement of all the finalists by bestselling author Scott Turow in this video (he shows up at around the 1:43 mark).
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