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National Book Award Winners Announced
And the results are in!
Jesmyn Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” won for fiction, Stephen Greenblatt’s “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” won for non-fiction, Nikky Finney’s “Head Off & Split” won for poetry and Thanhha Lai’s “Inside Out and Back Again” won for young people’s literature.
John Ashbery got in on the fun, as well:
The award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters went to the poet John Ashbery, a native of Rochester, N.Y., who has published more than 20 books of poetry and has won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
Mr. Ashbery, 84, walking gingerly, stepped onstage to a long standing ovation and spoke of the joys of writing poetry, which “gives me a pleasure I can almost taste.”
“It is fun, though it isn’t supposed to be,” he said. “But somehow the difficulty is embedded in the pleasure.”
More Nicky Finney here.
Posted in Poetry News on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 by Harriet Staff.