The National Book Foundation has announced the 2012 "5 Under 35" honorees, recognizing five young fiction writers, as chosen by previous National Book Award winners and finalists:
Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes (Dial Press, 2012). Selected by Andrew Krivak, fiction finalist for The Sojourn, 2011
Stuart Nadler, The Book of Life (Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books, 2011). Selected by Edith Pearlman, fiction finalist for Binocular Vision, 2011
Haley Tanner, Vaclav & Lena (Dial Press, 2012). Selected by Téa Obreht, fiction finalist for The Tiger's Wife, 2011, and 5 Under 35 honoree, 2010
Justin Torres, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). Selected by Jessica Hagedorn, fiction finalist for Dogeaters, 1990
Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn (Riverhead, 2012). Selected by Julie Otsuka, fiction finalist for The Buddha in the Attic, 2011
They will be honored on Monday, November 12--at the start of National Book Awards Week--during a celebration at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, hosted by musician Neko Case, with poet and photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis as DJ.
