For the first time, a graphic novel, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss, has been nominated as a nonfiction finalist for the US National Book Awards, announced on October 12.
The nominees for the 62nd National Book Awards include five books each in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature categories. The honor, considered the most prestigious of the major American literary prizes, is comparable to Britain’s Man Booker Prize.
An excerpt of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout can be viewed on the author’s website, http://laurenredniss.com/, and Raidon, a game based on the book, can be played at the exhibition page at the New York Public Library: http://exhibitions.nypl.org/radioactive/.