The annual
National Book Awards will be presented in New York City on November 16 (this
blog will post winners on November 27). Winners will be posted after the awards
ceremonies on the National Book Foundation website www.nationalbook.org
Today, 11 days
before the awards ceremony, judges have cut the list of finalists from 40 to a
group of 20. Prizes are offered in four
categories: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and young people's literature.
Each winning
author per category will be awarded $10,000.
Fiction Nominees
Chris
Bachelder, The Throwback Special
Paulette
Jiles, News of the World
Karan
Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
Colson
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Jacqueline
Woodson, Another Brooklyn
Nonfiction Nominees
--Arlie
Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the
American Right
--Ibram X.
Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in
America
--Viet Thanh
Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
--Andrés
Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in
America
--Heather
Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its
Legacy
Poetry Nominees
Daniel
Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human
Rita Dove,
Collected Poems 1974 – 2004
Peter Gizzi,
Archeophonics
Jay Hopler,
The Abridged History of Rainfall
Solmaz
Sharif, Look
Young People's Literature Nominees
Kate
DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale
John Lewis,
Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell, March: Book Three
Grace Lin,
When the Sea Turned to Silver
Jason
Reynolds, Ghost
Nicola Yoon,
The Sun Is Also a Star
MORE ON THE NATIONAL BOOK CLUB AWARDS
The National
Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National
Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the
National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors.
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Lisa Lucas, publisher
of Guernica magazine, was named executive director of the National Book Foundation on March 14, 2016.
Photo: Beowulf Sheehan/Courtesy of Lisa Lucas
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The National
Book Awards were established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association,
abandoned during World War II, and re-established by three book industry
organizations in 1950. Non-U.S. authors and publishers were eligible for the
pre-war awards. Now they are presented to U.S. authors for books published in
the United States roughly during the award year.
The
nonprofit National Book Foundation was established in 1988 to administer and
enhance the National Book Awards and "move beyond [them] into the fields
of education and literacy", primarily by sponsoring public appearances by
writers. Its mission is "to celebrate the best of American literature, to
expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in
America."
In 2010,
there were 1,115 books nominated for the four award categories, led by the
Nonfiction category with 435 nominations. The 2011 ceremony was held on
November 16 in New York City.—Wikipedia.
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