Louise Erdrich’s Novel ‘The Round House’ Wins National Book Award – NYTimes.com

/ Awards & Prizes / By Mary Daniels Brown / November 15, 2012

Beating out an unusually competitive field, Louise Erdrich won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for “The Round House,” a novel about a teenage boy’s effort to investigate an attack on his mother on a North Dakota reservation, and his struggle to come to terms with the violence in their culture.

Other winners:

Nonfiction: Katherine Boo for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Young People’s Literature: William Alexander for Goblin Secrets
Poetry: David Ferry for Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: novelist Elmore Leonard

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My mother always insisted that, as soon as I was old enough to sit up, she’d find me in my crib after my nap babbling away, with a Little Golden Book on my lap. I’ve had my nose in a book ever since. I grew up in a small town, with the tiny town library literally in my backyard. As an only child in an unhappy home, I found comfort and companionship in books. As an adult I wanted to be Harry Potter, although I admit I’m more Hermione. My life has been a series of research projects. Reading has taught me that human lives are deliciously messy and that “it’s complicated” isn’t a punchline.

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