Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz

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  Diaz, Erdrich among finalists for Carnegie prize

  Junot Diaz and Louise Erdrich are among the finalists for a literary prize chosen by the American Library Association. Diaz's "This Is How You Lose ... 

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  Chinua Achebe, author of 'Things Fall Apart,' dies

  The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and ... 

• New Folio Prize to reward English-language fiction

  A new literary prize is hoping to beat the Booker to the title of Britain's most prestigious fiction award — in part by including Americans. 

• Watergate novel nominated for fiction prize

  Thomas Mallon's novel about the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. Published by Random ... 

• AP NewsBreak: Rewrite for National Book Awards

  The National Book Awards are getting a rewrite. New rules announced Tuesday include a "long list" of 10 nominees to be offered for each of the four ... 

• Junot Diaz is finalist for short story prize

  Junot (JOO'-noh) Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her" is among three finalists for a $20,000 prize for short story collections. Other nominees announced ... 

• Caro, Katherine Boo nominated for critics prizes

  Robert Caro, Katherine Boo and the late Anthony Shadid are among the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Boo already won the ... 

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  Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue'

  The way Michael Chabon sees it, he took the cowardly way out early in his career. It's a startling admission from one of modern American literature's ...