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Book Cover Image. Title: The Round House, Author: Louise Erdrich
The Round House
Hardcover
The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Louise Erdrich took the 2012 fiction award for The Round House.
This Year's Winners
Book Cover Image. Title: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Author: Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
Hardcover
Book Cover Image. Title: Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, Author: David Ferry
Bewilderment
David Ferry
Paperback
Book Cover Image. Title: Goblin Secrets, Author: William Alexander
Goblin Secrets
William Alexander
Hardcover

2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

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Mo Yan
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the popular and widely translated Chinese novelist Mo Yan (b.1955). In the words of the Academy, "with hallucinatory realism [he] merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
Book Cover Image. Title: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Author: Mo Yan
Life and Death Are Wearing…
Mo Yan
Book Cover Image. Title: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, Author: Mo Yan
Red Sorghum
Mo Yan
Book Cover Image. Title: Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Author: Mo Yan
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Mo Yan
Book Cover Image. Title: The Garlic Ballads, Author: Mo Yan
The Garlic Ballads
Mo Yan

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Book Cover Image. Title: Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm, Author: Monte Reel
Between Man and Beast
Monte Reel
Book Cover Image. Title: The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, Author: Jonathan M. Katz
The Big Truck That Went By
Jonathan M. Katz
Book Cover Image. Title: The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story, Author: Ashok Rajamani
The Day My Brain Exploded
Ashok Rajamani
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Man Booker Prize

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Book Cover Image. Title: Bring Up the Bodies, Author: Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

Breaking a new record, Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring up the Bodies, the acclaimed sequel to her 2009 Man Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall. This prestigious award is given for a novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. 

Hilary Mantel