The National Book Awards has been one of the most celebrated prizes since 1950. Below are the finalists for fiction, nonfiction, and translated literature. Winners will be announced on November 15th.
Finalists for Fiction:
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk
Paul Harding, This Other Eden
Hanna Pylväinen, The End of Drum-Time
Justin Torres, Blackouts
Finalists for Nonfiction:
Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes
Raja Shehadeh, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
John Vaillant, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Finalists for Translated Literature:
Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny | Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
David Diop, Beyond the Door of No Return | Translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Stênio Gardel, The Words That Remain | Translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
Pilar Quintana, Abyss | Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
Astrid Roemer, On a Woman’s Madness | Translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott