Kansas City-born author Evan S. Connell, Jr. has passed away at age 88. Connell was a National Book Award Finalist twice, in 1960 for Mrs. Bridge (Fiction) and in 1974 for Points for a Compass Rose (Poetry). Check out his page in our online exhibition The Contenders.
Click here to read O’Connell’s obituary in The Kansas City Star.
Announcing the featured authors for this year’s National Book Awards on Campus program, March 21-22 at Concordia College: Louise Erdrich, 2012 NBA Fiction Winner for The Round House, and Domingo Martinez, 2012 NBA Nonfiction Finalist for The Boy Kings of Texas. For more info, visit our website.
Erdrich photo by Paul Emmel
Martinez photo by Damian Green
A National Book Award Finalist, a 5 Under 35 honoree, and… John Leguizamo? Yes, please!
Selected Shorts: Junot Díaz & Karen Russell
Wednesday, January 23 at 7:30 pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space
Click here for more info and tickets.
For more event listings featuring NBA authors, visit our website.
This month, all of our BookUpNYC sites visited the “Lunch Hour” exhibit at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. After that, we had lunch at Hill Country Chicken and went book shopping at Books of Wonder. To see more field trip photos, visit our website.
“The only thing I’ve ever wanted to do with my life is have a good time writing stories. This award tells me I’m still at it.”
-Elmore Leonard accepting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2012 National Book Awards (November 14, 2012)
5 Under 35 photo booth pics are here! Thanks to Sam Morgan and The Photo Booth Party for showing us such a good time. You can see more photo booth pics and download them here. For more photos and video from this year’s 5 Under 35 celebration, visit our website.
Check out these great shots from the National Book Awards After-Party, sponsored by Kobo Inc.! For more info and photos from the party, visit our website.
Photos by Aslan Chalom
pith:
A taste of the 2012 National Book Awards after-party. See more photos off in Flickr-land.
Love these after-party shots from http://pith.tumblr.com! More to come from us very shortly!
2012 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS:
Young People’s Literature:
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
(Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
Poetry:
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
(University of Chicago Press)
Nonfiction:
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
(Random House)
Fiction:
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Our mission is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of writing in America. In addition to the annual National Book Awards, we also present educational programs, public events, and more all across the U.S. For more information, visit our website, NationalBook.org.
