{"id":140434,"date":"2025-09-13T06:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140434\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:52:13","slug":"national-book-awards-longlists-include-new-works-by-angela-flournoy-susan-choi-and-yiyun-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140434\/","title":{"rendered":"National Book Awards longlists include new works by Angela Flournoy, Susan Choi and Yiyun Li"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New fiction by Angela Flournoy<\/a> and Susan Choi,<\/a> a memoir of tragedy by Yiyun Li and a novel in translation by Nobel laureate Han Kang<\/a> were among the nominees announced this week for the long lists of the National Book Awards.<\/p>\n

The National Book Foundation<\/a> announced 10 books in each of five categories \u2014 fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people\u2019s literature. The categories will be narrowed to five finalists on Oct. 7, and winners will be announced at a Nov. 19 dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when the foundation also will present honorary awards to author George Saunders<\/a> and author-publisher Roxane Gay.<\/p>\n

Choi\u2019s \u201cFlashlight\u201d is her first novel since 2019, when she won the National Book Award for \u201cTrust Exercise.\u201d Flournoy\u2019s \u201cThe Wilderness\u201d came out a decade after she was a National Book Award finalist for \u201cThe Turner House.\u201d Other fiction nominees include Megha Majumdar\u2019s \u201cA Guardian and a Thief,\u201d the follow-up to her celebrated debut from 2020, \u201cA Burning\u201d; Bryan Washington\u2019s \u201cPalaver\u201d and the latest collection from acclaimed short story author Joy Williams, \u201cThe Pelican Child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Li\u2019s \u201cThings In Nature Merely Grow\u201d opens with a painful acknowledgment, \u201cThere is no good way to say this,\u201d as she attempts to make sense of the suicides of her two teenage sons. The author is also known for such prize-winning fiction as \u201cThe Book of Goose\u201d and \u201cWhere Reasons End,\u201d an imagined dialogue between a mother and her son, who has taken his own life. <\/p>\n

Nonfiction nominees also include Julia Ioffe\u2019s \u201cMotherland,\u201d a feminist history of Russia over the past century, and Claudia Rowe\u2019s \u201cWards of the State,\u201d which probes the American foster care system. <\/p>\n

Han Kang\u2019s \u201cWe Do Not Part,\u201d translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, reflects upon the 1948-49 Jeju uprising, when the U.S.-backed South Korean government killed tens of thousands of rebels on Jeju Island. Jazmina Barrera\u2019s \u201cThe Queen of Swords,\u201d translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney; Hamid Ismailov\u2019s \u201cWe Computers,\u201d translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega; and Mohamed Kheir\u2019s \u201cSleep Phase,\u201d translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger, are among the other translation nominees.<\/p>\n

Mahogany Browne\u2019s \u201cA Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe\u201d is a nominee in young people\u2019s literature, a category which also features Ibi Zoboi\u2019s \u201c(S)kin,\u201d K. Ancrum\u2019s \u201cThe Corruption of Hollis Brown\u201d and Amber McBride\u2019s \u201cThe Leaving Room.\u201d In poetry, the books include Patricia Smith\u2019s \u201cThe Intentions of Thunder,\u201d Esther Lin\u2019s \u201cCold Thief Place,\u201d Natalie Shapero\u2019s \u201cStay Dead\u201d and Gabrielle Calvocoressi\u2019s \u201cThe New Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New fiction by Angela Flournoy and Susan Choi, a memoir of tragedy by Yiyun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-140434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}