Andrew Carnegie Medal finalists

Finalists announced for first Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction—co-sponsored by Booklist/RUSA
This is the first time ALA has offered single-book awards for adult trade fiction and nonfiction. The awards are made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York and are co-sponsored by Booklist and RUSA. The winning fiction title and nonfiction title will be announced in June. The authors of the two winning titles will each receive a $5,000 cash prize, while the four remaining finalists will each receive $1,500.
Here are the 2012 finalists: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction: The Forgotten Waltz, by Anne Enright, published by W. W. Norton & Company Lost Memory of Skin, by Russell Banks, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie, published by Random House, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick, published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable, published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
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