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    Here's the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
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    Here are the shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in poetry and prose.
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    Read the 1934 Nora Neale Hurston essay that inspired next year's Met Gala theme.
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    Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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    By Dana Frank  October 9, 2024

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