The Round House, about a Native American woman subjected to an assault, beats novels by Dave Eggers and Junot Díaz Louise Erdrich’s story of a woman who is attacked on a North Dakota reservation has beaten high-profile novels by Junot Díaz , Kevin Powers and Dave Eggers to win America’s prestigious National Book award. Erdrich’s The Round House – already named book of the year by Amazon.com earlier this week – took the $10,000 National Book award for fiction at a ceremony in New York last night.
Louise Erdrich wins National Book award for fiction 2012
Posted by getsomenews.com on Nov 15, 2012