The National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 program honors five young fiction writers selected by past National Book Award Winners and Finalists. The 2012 5 Under 35 Honorees Are:
Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes
Selected by Andrew Krivak, Fiction Finalist for The Sojourn, 2011
Stuart Nadler, The Book of Life
Selected by Edith Pearlman, Fiction Finalist for Binocular Vision, 2011
Haley Tanner, Vaclav & Lena (audio download, eBook)
Selected by Téa Obreht, Fiction Finalist for The Tiger’s Wife, 2011 (audio download, CD book, eBook, large print), and 5 Under 35 Honoree, 2010
Justin Torres, We the Animals
Selected by Jessica Hagedorn, Fiction Finalist for Dogeaters, 1990
Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn
Selected by Julie Otsuka, Fiction Finalist for The Buddha in the Attic, 2011 (audio download, CD book, eBook)