This win was an easy prediction as critics lined up to love Roberto Bolano’s 2666 even before it was published, as was Dexter Filkins’ widely-loved THE FOREVER WAR (for general nonfiction). Other winners: AutobiographyAriel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise BiographyPatrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul Criticism Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter PoetryAugust Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City and Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems(the first time in 35 years that two books have shared a prize)AP
