NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by\u2026<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar<\/a> and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li<\/a> are among this year\u2019s finalists for the National Book Award. <\/p>\n On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation a<\/a> nnounced five nominees in each of five competitive categories, narrowing long lists of 10 unveiled last month. Winners, each of whom receive $10,000, will be revealed during a Nov. 19 dinner gala in downtown Manhattan. Honorary awards will be presented to fiction writer George Saunders<\/a> and author-publisher Roxane Gay. <\/p>\n Majumdar is a fiction finalist for \u201cA Guardian and a Thief,\u201d her first novel since her celebrated debut, \u201cA Burning,\u201d came out in 2020. Other fiction nominees include Alameddine\u2019s \u201cThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)\u201d; Russell\u2019s \u201cThe Antidote,\u201d her first novel since \u201cSwamplandia!,\u201d a Pulitzer finalist in 2012; Ethan Rutherford\u2019s \u201cNorth Sun\u201d and Bryan Washington\u2019s \u201cPalaver.\u201d <\/p>\n The fiction authors set their work everywhere from India in the near future (Majumdar) to 1930s Nebraska (Russell) to contemporary Tokyo (Washington).<\/p>\n Li\u2019s \u201cThings in Nature Merely Grow,\u201d a blunt and searching account of losing her two sons to suicide, is a nonfiction finalist, along with Omar El Akkad\u2019s \u201cOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u201d; Julia Ioffe\u2019s feminist history of Russia, \u201cMotherland\u201d; Claudia Rowe\u2019s \u201cWards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care\u201d; and Jordan Thomas\u2019 \u201cWhen It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World.\u201d<\/p>\n The poetry nominees are Cathy Linh Che\u2019s \u201cBecoming Ghost,\u201d Tiana Clark\u2019s \u201cScorched Earth,\u201d Richard Siken\u2019s \u201cI Do Know Some Things,\u201d Patricia Smith\u2019s \u201cThe Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems\u201d and Gabrielle Calvocoressi\u2019s \u201cThe New Economy.\u201d <\/p>\n In translated literature, Solvej Balle\u2019s \u201cOn the Calculation of Volume (Book III),\u201d translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell; and Gabriela Cabez\u00f3n C\u00e1mara\u2019s \u201cWe Are Green and Trembling,\u201d translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers, are among the finalists. The others include Anjet Daanje\u2019s \u201cThe Remembered Soldier,\u201d translated from the Dutch by David McKay; Hamid Ismailov\u2019s \u201cWe Computers: A Ghazal Novel,\u201d translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega; and Neige Sinno\u2019s \u201cSad Tiger,\u201d translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.<\/p>\n Finalists for young people\u2019s literature include three novels-in-verse: Amber McBride\u2019s \u201cThe Leaving Room,\u201d Hannah V. Sawyerr\u2019s \u201cTruth Is\u201d and Ibi Zoboi\u2019s \u201c(S)Kin.\u201d The other nominees are Kyle Lukoff\u2019s \u201cA World Worth Saving\u201d and Daniel Nayeri\u2019s \u201cThe Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story.\u201d<\/p>\n The National Book Awards, now in their 76th year, are chosen by panels of writers, critics and other members of the literary community. Notable works from 2025 that were not on the finalist lists include such novels as Angela Flournoy\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThe Wilderness\u201d and Kiran Desai\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,\u201d and Arundhati Roy\u2019s<\/a> memoir, \u201cMother Mary Comes to Me.\u201d<\/p>\n Copyright
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