October 1, 2024, 10:15am
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards in all five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. The finalists were selected from a starting total of 1,917 books submitted by publishers this year: 473 in Fiction, 671 in Nonfiction, 299 in Poetry, 141 in Translated Literature, and 333 in Young People’s Literature.
The winners in all categories will be revealed at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, during which Barbara Kingsolver and W. Paul Coates will also be awarded lifetime achievement awards. Winners receive $10,000, a bronze medal, and a statue; Finalists receive $1,000 and a bronze medal. Winners and Finalists in the Translated Literature category will split the prize evenly between author and translator.
In the meantime, here are the finalists:
FICTION:
‘Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Norton / W. W. Norton & Company
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Percival Everett, James
Doubleday / Penguin Random House
Miranda July, All Fours
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Hisham Matar, My Friends
Random House / Penguin Random House
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NONFICTION:
Jason De León, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Viking Books / Penguin Random House
Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
Kate Manne, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Crown / Penguin Random House
Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Random House / Penguin Random House
Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender
Harper / HarperCollins Publishers
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POETRY:
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
New Directions Publishing
Fady Joudah, […]
Milkweed Editions
m.s. RedCherries, mother
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
Graywolf Press
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Something About Living
University of Akron Press
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TRANSLATED LITERATURE:
Bothayna Al-Essa, The Book Censor’s Library
Translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain
Restless Books
Linnea Axelsson, Ædnan
Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Fiston Mwanza Mujila, The Villain’s Dance
Translated from the French by Roland Glasser
Deep Vellum / Deep Vellum Publishing
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, Taiwan Travelogue
Translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King
Graywolf Press
Samar Yazbek, Where the Wind Calls Home
Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
World Editions
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YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE:
Violet Duncan, Buffalo Dreamer
Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin Random House
Josh Galarza, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky
Henry Holt and Company (BYR) / Macmillan Publishers
Erin Entrada Kelly, The First State of Being
Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers
Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House
Angela Shanté, The Unboxing of a Black Girl
Page Street Publishing