Thursday, May 17, 2012

Finalists for the New Andrew Carnegie Medal

Here are the 2012 finalists:
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction:

The Forgotten Waltz, by Anne Enright
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published by W. W. Norton & Company

Lost Memory of Skin, by Russell Banks,
published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell,
published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction:

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie, published by Random House, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick, published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable,
published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)


Information taken from Booklist, May 17, 2012, ALA Publishing.