National Book Award finalists announced

In the US, the finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

Fiction

• Chain-Gang All-Stars (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Pantheon)
• Temple Folk (Aaliyah Bilal, S&S)
• This Other Eden (Paul Harding, Norton)
• The End of Drum-Time (Hanna Pylväinen, Holt)
• Blackouts (Justin Torres, FSG)

Nonfiction

• The Rediscovery of America: Native peoples and the unmaking of US history (Ned Blackhawk, Yale University Press)
• Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A sister’s search for justice (Cristina Rivera Garza, Hogarth)
• Ordinary Notes (Christina Sharpe, FSG)
• We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian memoir (Raja Shehadeh, Other Press)
• Fire Weather: A true story from a hotter world (John Vaillant, Knopf) 

Poetry

• How to Communicate (John Lee Clark, Norton)
• from unincorporated territory [åmot] (Craig Santos Perez, Omnidawn)
• suddenly we (Evie Shockley, Wesleyan University Press)
• Tripas (Brandon Som, Georgia Review)
• From From (Monica Youn, Graywolf) 

Translated Literature

• Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, trans by Anton Hur, Algonquin)
• Beyond the Door of No Return (David Diop, trans by Sam Taylor, FSG)
• The Words That Remain (Stênio Gardel, trans by Bruna Dantas Lobato, New Vessel)
• Abyss (Pilar Quintana, trans by Lisa Dillman, World Editions)
• On a Woman’s Madness (Astrid Roemer, trans by Lucy Scott, Two Lines)

Young People’s Literature 

• Gather (Kenneth M Cadow, Candlewick)
• Huda F Cares? (Huda Fahmy, Dial)
• Big (Vashti Harrison, Little, Brown)
• The Lost Year: A survival story of the Ukrainian famine (Katherine Marsh, Roaring Brook)
• A First Time for Everything (Dan Santat, First Second).

The awards are administered by the US National Book Foundation. The winners will be announced on 15 November.

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