Alexie, Hass, Johnson and Weiner Win 2007 National Book Awards — Women Shut Out in Sweep for Male Authors

A tidal wave of testosterone at the National Book Awards ceremonyOne-Minute Book Reviews normally doesn’t cover breaking news. But the National Book Award winners announced tonight have been slow enough to appear on the Web that the policy is bending today. Here’s a complete list of the winners and finalists for the awards from the National Book Foundation site www.nationalbook.org. SNAP preview is always enabled on One-Minute Book Reviews, so you can put your cursor on aLiny of the links below and see an image of the page you’ll reach by clicking on it.FICTION WINNER: Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) – Interview Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) – Interview Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) – Interview Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company) – Interview Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) – Interview Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf) – Interview Fiction judges: Francine Prose (chair), Andrew Sean Greer, Walter Kirn, David Means, and Joy Williams.NONFICTION

WINNER: Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday) – Interview Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf) – Interview Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA) – Interview Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) – Interview Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf) – Interview Nonfiction judges: David Shields (chair), Deborah Blum, Caroline Elkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, and James Shapiro.

POETRY

WINNER: Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins) – Interview Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Company) – Interview David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St. (Louisiana State University Press) – Interview Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton & Company) – Interview Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton & Company) – Interview Poetry Judges: Charles Simic (chair), Linda Bierds, David St. John, Vijay Seshadri, and Natasha Trethewey.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

WINNER: Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown & Company) – Interview Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) – Interview M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) – Interview Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press) – Interview Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown & Company) – Interview Young People’s Literature Judges: Elizabeth Partridge (chair), Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patricia McCormick, and Scott Westerfeld