Barnes & Noble Announces the Fiction and Nonfiction Finalists for the Annual Discover Great New Writers Awards; Winners to be Announced March 2nd.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the finalists for its prestigious 2004 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $2,500, and third-place finalists, $1,000. The finalists are: Fiction ------- John Dalton, Heaven Lake (Scribner) Michelle de Kretser, The Hamilton Case (Little, Brown) M.J. Hyland, How the Light Gets In (Canongate) Nonfiction ---------- Edward Conlon, Blue Blood (Riverhead Books) Suketu Mehta, Maximum City (Knopf) Alison Smith, Name All the Animals (Scribner) The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 2nd, at a private awards ceremony. At 7:00 p.m. that evening, all six finalists are invited to read from their work at Barnes & Noble's Union Square store in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , located at 33 East 17th Street (between Broadway and Park Avenue South). The Discover Awards honor the best works featured in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program during the previous calendar year. The Finalists John Dalton's first novel, Heaven Lake, is a philosophically poignant tale of a young American who travels to Asia and finds his faith tested in ways he'd never imagined. The exotic culture and racial tensions of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (srē läng`kə) [Sinhalese,=resplendent land], formerly Ceylon, ancient Taprobane, officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, island republic (2005 est. pop. in the early and mid-20th century serve as the backdrop for Australian Michelle de Kretser's lush second novel, The Hamilton Case, a subtle, yet brilliant examination of a lawyer caught between two worlds. A second Australian writer was named a finalist for this year's fiction award, M.J. Hyland, whose dark first novel of teenage angst, How the Light Gets In, turns the American Dream American dream also American Dream n. An American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire: on its head. Edward Conlon's exploration of the NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development jumped onto the bestseller lists immediately upon publication. Blue Blood, filled with details of life behind the Blue Wall, offers an unflinching portrait of a family and a vocation. Suketu Mehta's Maximum City presents a marvelous portrait of a city transformed by time - Bombay, now Mumbai - and his own reaction as an adult returning to a hometown he remembers fondly. Name All the Animals Name All the Animals is a 2004 memoir by Alison Smith, detailing the aftermath of the death of her eighteen-year old brother. While attending Our Lady of Mercy High School, a Catholic high school, Smith developed an eating disorder, lost her faith in God and realized that is Alison Smith's tragic memoir of a family torn apart by the death of a teenaged son. Smith's deeply evocative account of grief is a masterful achievement. The Jurists The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction. See also list of lawyers. Antiquity
Two panels of distinguished literary jurists selected the finalists and will select the winners. Serving as this year's fiction jurists are Mark Dunn Mark Dunn (* 1956 Memphis, Tennessee) is an American author and playwright. Dunn lives with his wife Mary in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Among the twenty-five plays Dunn has written (as of 2001), Belles and Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain , a playwright and the author of the novels Ella Minnow Pea Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel by Mark Dunn, copyrighted in 2001. The full title of the hardcover version is Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable , while the paperback version is Ella Minnow Pea : A Novel in Letters. , Welcome to Higby, and Ibid; Karen Joy Fowler Karen Joy Fowler (born February 7, 1950 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. , whose most recent work is the bestseller, The Jane Austen Book Club; and Meg Wolitzer, whose novels include Surrender, Dorothy and The Wife. A new novel, The Position, will be published by Scribner in March. The nonfiction judges include the biographer and architecture maven Witold Rybczynski whose works include A Clearing in the Distance and The Most Beautiful House in the World; memoirist Esmeralda Santiago whose memoir, The Turkish Lover (the third book in her autobiographical triology) was published last year; and Amy Stewart, the author of two books: From the Ground Up, a gardening memoir, and The Earth Moved, an exploration of earthworms. The 15th Anniversary of the Discover Program The Discover Great New Writers program was established in 1990 to bring to light works of exceptional literary quality that might otherwise be overlooked in a competitive and crowded marketplace. This year's selections featured the work of 69 new and previously underappreciated writers. Submissions to the program are read and discussed by a volunteer group of Barnes & Noble booksellers before selection for the program's seasonal promotions. Past winners of the annual Discover Great New Writers Award include Monica Ali for Brick Lane (2003), Jay Griffiths for A Sideways Look at Time (2003), Anthony Doerr for The Shell Collector (2002), Dina Temple-Raston for A Death in Texas (2002), Manil Suri for The Death of Vishnu (2001), Hampton Sides for Ghost Soldiers (2001), Tracy Chevalier for Girl with a Pearl Earring The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het meisje met de parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. (2000), Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker (1995), and David Guterson for Snow Falling on Cedars (1994). About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 839 bookstores in 50 states. For the third year in a row, the company is the nation's top retail brand for quality, according to the EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R). Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites and the number-one brand among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey. In addition to its retail operations, Barnes & Noble is one of the largest book publishers in the world. Its subsidiary, Sterling Publishing, publishes over 1,300 new titles a year and has an active list of over 6,000 titles. General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com. |
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