UPDATE
Nov 21, 2024 12:00 AM CST
Percival Everett's James, a daring reworking of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León's Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling won for nonfiction, the AP reports. The prize for young people's literature was given Wednesday night to Shifa Saltagi Safadi's coming of age story Kareem Between, and the poetry award went to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's Something About Living. In the translation category, the winner was Yáng Shuang-zi's Taiwan Travelogue, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King.
Oct 1, 2024 10:35 AM CDT
Salman Rushdie's memoir about his near-fatal stabbing, Knife, and Percival Everett's revisionist historical novel, James, are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards. Others nominated include author-filmmaker Miranda July for her explicit novel on middle age, All Fours, and the celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson for Wrong Norma. On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation announced finalists in fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature, poetry, and books in translation. Winners will be announced during a Nov. 20 dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when honorary prizes will be presented to novelist Barbara Kingsolver and publisher-activist W. Paul Coates. More, per the AP: