In case you haven’t heard already, the National Book Award Winners were announced last night.

In the L.A. Times “Jacket Copy” blog, Carolyn Kellogg reports on the event; the dinner was “dwonsized” from last year’s lamb to chicken. The New York Times‘ book beat reporter Motoko Rich not only tweeted as the NBA was in progress, she posted interviews and stories in the “Arts Beat” blog (her full story in the newspaper is here).

Claudette Colvin, the subject of the winning Young Adult Literature title was at the dinner and joined author Phillip Hoose on stage.

Book TV will be running video of the event on Sat 8pm & Sun 10am ET

Winners:

Fiction

Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann Retail Price: $25.00 Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Random House – (2009-06-23) ISBN / EAN: 1400063736 / 9781400063734

eBook downloadable from OverDrive

Nonfiction

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T.J. Stiles Retail Price: $37.50 Hardcover: 736 pages Publisher: Knopf – (2009-04-21) ISBN / EAN: 0375415424 / 9780375415425

Books on Tape; UnAbr; 9781415965917; $100
Audiobook and eBook downloadable from OverDrive

Poetry

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (New California Poetry) Keith Waldrop Retail Price: $19.95 Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: University of California Press – (2009-03-02) ISBN / EAN: 0520258789 / 9780520258785

Young People’s Literature

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip M Hoose Retail Price: $19.95 Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) – (2009-01-20) ISBN / EAN: 0374313229 / 9780374313227

Brilliance Audio

• CD Unabr Lib Ed; 9781441802378; $59.97
• MP3-CD Unabr Lib Ed; 9781441802392; $39.97

Audiobook downloadable from OverDrive

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