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New Delhi: A book on
lives of people in a Mumbai slum has won this year's National Book
Award for Non-Fiction in the United States.
"Behind The Beautiful Forevers", written by American journalist
Katherine Boo, is an account of Annawadi, a makeshift settlement
near Mumbai airport. The award was announced Wednesday in New
York.
"...there was a lack of depth to the reporting on how India's
phenomenal growth was affecting daily lives in low-income
communities and particularly the lives of ordinary women and
children. It took two years of immersion and investigative
reporting before I began to sense what the larger story might be,"
Boo was quoted as telling an interviewer on the award website.
National Book Foundation, a consortium of book publishing groups,
gives away the annual awards.
Boo's book beat Anne Applebaum's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of
Eastern Europe, 1945-1956", Robert A. Caro's "The Passage of
Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4" , Domingo Martinez's
"The Boy Kings of Texas" and Anthony Shadid's "House of Stone: A
Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East".
The National Book Award for Fiction was given to novelist Louise
Erdrich's "The Round House".
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