Yesterday, Australian author Richard Flanagan has won the 2014 Booker Prize for his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a book about a POW experience during World War II. It deals with work on the Thai-Burma railway (the Death Railway) made famous by the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. This was the first year the Booker was open to nominations of American authors, a controversial decision that had many worrying the coveted prize would become dominated by American books.
And today the National Book Awards announced their shortlist nominees in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature. It's an excellent crop, and we are eager to see who wins.
Here are the Fiction nominees: all the All the Light We Cannot See, Lila, Redeployment, Station Eleven and An Unnecessary Woman.
Be sure to check out the nominees in Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature as well.
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