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Jhumpa Lahiri Named Finalist For U.S. National Book Award
New York: The National Book Foundation announced the lists of five finalists each for the 2013 National Book Award in the fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young people's literature categories in New York on Wednesday.
Indian-American Pulitzer Prize- winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has been named finalist for the prestigious US National Book Award 2013 in the fiction category for her new book 'The Lowland', an intimate portrayal of two brothers set in Kolkata of the 1960s.
The National Book Foundation announced the lists of five finalists each for the 2013 National Book Award in the fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young people's literature categories in New York on Wednesday.
The winners will be named at a ceremony on November 20 and will be awarded USD 10000 each.
The National Book Award is one of the nation's most prestigious literary prizes that identify and reward quality writing.
The Foundation said Lahiri's Lowland is "masterly suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate".
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Source: PTI
