Barnes & Noble announced the finalists for its 2007 Discover Great New Writers Awards today. Winners in the fiction and nonfiction categories, who will each receive $10,000 and a year of promotion through B&N, will be announced on February 27, following a reading by all six finalists in B&N’s Lincoln Triangle store in New York. Second and third place finalists receive $5,000 and $2,500, respectively. The award honors what B&N deems the best work featured in the previous year’s Discover Great New Writers Program. Here is the complete list of finalists:
Fiction
Matthew Eck, The Farther Shore (Milkweed Editions)
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown)
Vendela Vida, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (Ecco)
Nonfiction
Kate Braestrup, Here If You Need Me: A True Story (Little, Brown)
Elizabeth D. Samet, Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Yaroslav Trofimov, The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda (Doubleday)
