Poznaliśmy długą listę nominowanych do tegorocznej edycji National Book Awards w poszczególnych kategoriach.

Fiction

Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic

Susan Choi, Flashlight
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness
Mariner Books / HarperCollins Publishers

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Sisters
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief
Knopf / Penguin Random House

Kevin Moffett, Only Son
McSweeney’s

Karen Russell, The Antidote
Knopf / Penguin Random House

Ethan Rutherford, North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
A Strange Object / Deep Vellum Publishing

Bryan Washington, Palaver
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Joy Williams, The Pelican Child
Knopf / Penguin Random House

 

Nonfiction

Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Knopf / Penguin Random House

Caleb Gayle, Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers

Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy, For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Lana Lin, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
Dorothy, a publishing project

Ben Ratliff, Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening
Graywolf Press

Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
Abrams Press / Abrams

Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Helen Whybrow, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life
Milkweed Editions

 

Poetry

Gbenga Adesina, Death Does Not End at the Sea
University of Nebraska Press

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, The New Economy
Copper Canyon Press

Cathy Linh Che, Becoming Ghost
Washington Square Press / Simon & Schuster

Tiana Clark, Scorched Earth
Washington Square Press / Simon & Schuster

Rickey Laurentiis, Death of the First Idea
Knopf / Penguin Random House

Esther Lin, Cold Thief Place
Alice James Books

Natalie Shapero, Stay Dead
Copper Canyon Press

Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things
Copper Canyon Press

Patricia Smith, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Scribner / Simon & Schuster

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, TERROR COUNTER
Deep Vellum / Deep Vellum Publishing

 

Young People’s Literature

María Dolores Águila, A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
Roaring Brook Press / Macmillan Publishers

K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown
HarperCollins / HarperCollins Publishers

Derrick Barnes, The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
Viking Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

Mahogany L. Browne, A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
Crown Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

Kyle Lukoff, A World Worth Saving
Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

Amber McBride, The Leaving Room
Feiwel & Friends / Macmillan Publishers

Daniel Nayeri, The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Levine Querido

Hannah V. Sawyerr, Truth Is
Amulet Books / Abrams

Maria van Lieshout, Song of a Blackbird
First Second / Macmillan Publishers

Ibi Zoboi, (S)Kin
Versify / HarperCollins Publishers

 

Translated Literature

Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
Translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
New Directions Publishing

Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Two Lines Press

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
New Directions Publishing

Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier
Translated from the Dutch by David McKay
New Vessel Press

Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback
Translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
Hogarth / Penguin Random House

Hamid Ismailov, We Computers: A Ghazal Novel
Translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
Yale University Press

Han Kang, We Do Not Part
Translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Hogarth / Penguin Random House

Mohamed Kheir, Sleep Phase
Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger
Two Lines Press

Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection
Translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes
New York Review Books

Neige Sinno, Sad Tiger
Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
Seven Stories Press

 

 

Finaliści zostaną ogłoszeni 7 października 2025 r., a zwycięzcy zostaną uhonorowani podczas 76. gali wręczenia National Book Awards, która odbędzie się 19 listopada 2025 r.

National Book Awards – jedna z najbardziej prestiżowych nagród literackich w Stanach Zjednoczonych, ustanowiona w 1936 przez Amerykańskie Stowarzyszenie Księgarzy. Od 1988 nagrodami zajmuje się National Book Foundation