Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Filmmaker and Author John Waters to Host National Book Award Poetry Finalist Patricia Smith to DJ

2011 5 Under 35 Honorees
The 2011 5 Under 35 Honorees are:  

  • Shani BoianjiuThe People of Forever Are Not Afraid
    (Hogarth, an imprint of Crown Publishers, forthcoming in 2013)
    Selected by Nicole Krauss, National Book Award Fiction Finalist for 
    Great House, 2010      
  • Danielle EvansBefore You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self   
    (Riverhead Books, 2010)
    Selected by Robert Stone, Winner for 
    Dog Soldiers, 1975, and Finalist for A Flag For Sunrise, 1982 and 1983,Outerbridge Reach, 1992, and Damascus Gate, 1998
  • Mary Beth KeaneThe Walking People
    (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)
    Selected by Julia Glass, Fiction Winner for 
    Three Junes, 2002
  • Melinda MoustakisBear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
    (The University of Georgia Press, 2011)
    Selected by Jaimy Gordon, Fiction Winner for 
    Lord of Misrule, 2010
  • John Corey WhaleyWhere Things Come Back
    (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011)
    Selected by Oscar Hijuelos, Fiction Finalist for 
    The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, 1989