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NEW YORK — Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom,” the year’s most highly praised and talked about literary novel, was not among the fiction finalists announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards.
Nominees on Wednesday included Peter Carey, whose “Parrot and Olivier in America” was a runner-up for the Man Booker Prize, and such well-regarded authors as Nicole Krauss (“Great House”) and Lionel Shriver (“So Much for That”). The book awards also welcomed a rock star, Patti Smith, a nonfiction contender for “Just Kids,” a memoir about her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Thirteen of the 20 finalists were women, a record.
The winners, each of whom receive $10,000, will be announced Nov. 17. The Associated Press
