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The 2005 National Book Award winners were announced last night. Here's a listing of winners and finalists:

FICTION
Winner: William T. Vollmann, Europe Central (Viking)
Finalists: E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House)Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon)Christopher Sorrentino, Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Renè Steinke, Holy Skirts (William Morrow)

NONFICTION
Winner: Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (Alfred A. Knopf)
Finalists:Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Houghton Mifflin) Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books) Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Houghton Mifflin)

POETRY
WINNER:W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
Finalists: John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander (Ecco)Frank Bidart, Star Dust: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Brendan Galvin, Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 (Louisiana State University Press)Vern Rutsala, The Moment’s Equation (Ashland Poetry Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
WINNER: Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks (Alfred A. Knopf)
Finalists: Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be (Putnam)Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Atheneum)Walter Dean Myers, Autobiography of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest)Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt)

For more info and past winners, visit:
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html