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Louise Erdrich Dept: Other nominees including veteran writers Louise Erdrich, Robert Caro and the late Anthony Shadid, the veteran Middle East correspondent and New York Times journalist who died of an asthma attack earlier this year while covering the conflict in Syria, according to CBC. Diaz, who received a Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , has received critical acclaim for This is How You Lose Her, his prickly collection of short stories about love. The Dominican-American writer and editor of the Boston Review puts the immigrant experience at the centre of his writing and fiction writers Junot Diaz and Dave Eggers are among the finalists announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards, the prestigious U.S. awards for literature. Fiction writer Junot Diaz has been nominated for a National Book Award for his short story collection This is How You Lose Her. Tsar Fedorsky/John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation/Associated Press In recent years, the National Book Foundation has overlooked high-profile books such as Jonathan Franzen's Freedom in favour of more obscure titles, like last year s winner Jesmyn Ward s Salvage the Bones . However, this year s picks include some of the most-talked about literary works of 2012. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.