Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

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2012 Winners

Fiction
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Harper)

Nonfiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (Random House)

Poetry
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry (University of Chicago Press)

Young People's Literature
Goblin Secrets by William Alexander (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)

2012 Finalists

Fiction
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz (Riverhead Books)
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's Books)
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (Ecco)
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Little, Brown and Company)

Nonfiction
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 byAnne Applebaum (Doubleday)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (Random House)
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro (Knopf)
The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez (Lyons Press/Globe Pequot Press)
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Poetry
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry (University of Chicago Press)
Heavenly Bodies byCynthia Huntington (Southern Illinois University Press)
Fast Animal by Tim Seibles (Etruscan Press)
Night of the Republic by Alan Shapiro (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Meme by Susan Wheeler (University of Iowa Press)

Young People's Literature
Goblin Secrets by William Alexander (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Out of Reach by Carrie Arcos (Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins Publishers)
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic)
Bomb: The Race to Build --- and Steal --- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press)