2008 NBCC Award Winners & Finalists
Fiction Winner Roberto BolaƱo, 2666 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Fiction Finalists Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead) M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of
Fiction Winner Roberto BolaƱo, 2666 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Fiction Finalists Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead) M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of
Fiction Winner Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead) Fiction Finalists Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins) Hisham Matar, In The Country of Men (Dial Press) Joyce Carol
Fiction Winner Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Grove/Atlantic) Fiction Finalists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (Knopf) Dave Eggers, What Is the What (McSweeney’s) Richard Ford, The
Fiction Winner E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House) Fiction Finalists Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon) Andrea Levy, Small Island (Picador) Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (Knopf) William T. Vollmann, Europe
Fiction Winner Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Fiction Finalists Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (Knopf) Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury) David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Random House)
Fiction Winner Edward P. Jones, The Known World (Amistad) Fiction Finalists Monica Ali, Brick Lane (Scribner) Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Tobias Wolff, Old
Fiction Winner Ian McEwan, Atonement (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) Fiction Finalists Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) William Kennedy, Roscoe (Viking) Edith Templeton,
Fiction Winner W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Random House) Fiction Finalists Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Knopf) Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Fiction Winner Jim Crace, Being Dead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Fiction Finalists Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Random House) Michael Chabon, The Amazing
Fiction Winner Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday) Fiction Finalists A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne (Morrow) Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector (Harmony: Crown) J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Viking) David Gates, The Wonders