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    Here are the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards.

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    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

    *

    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

    *

    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

    *

    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

    *

    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

    2024 National Book Awards shortlists

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