In the Fiction list, which is considered by many to be the most high-profile of the awards, are Junot Diazs This Is How You Lose Her, Dave Eggers A Hologram For The King, The Round House by Louise Erdrich, Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain and Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds
Junot Diaz was recently the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, and has previously won the Pulitzer Prize, for his debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao. Dave Eggers, meanwhile, won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation, back in 2009 when he was just 39. Both