W środę 15 listopada podczas 74. ceremonii wręczenia nagród National Book Awards poznaliśmy tegorocznych laureatów.

Laureatem w kategorii Literatura Piękna został Justin Torres, “Blackouts” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)

Finaliści tej kategorii to:

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, “Chain-Gang All-Stars”
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

Aaliyah Bilal, “Temple Folk”
Simon & Schuster

Paul Harding, “This Other Eden”
W. W. Norton & Company

Hanna Pylväinen, “The End of Drum-Time”
Henry Holt & Company / Macmillan Publishers

Justin Torres, “Blackouts”
Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Laureatem kategorii Literatura Faktu został Ned Blackhawk, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History”(Yale University Press)

Finaliści w tej kategorii:

Ned Blackhawk, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History”
Yale University Press

Cristina Rivera Garza, “Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice”
Hogarth / Penguin Random House

Christina Sharpe, “Ordinary Notes”
Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Raja Shehadeh, “We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir”
Other Press

John Vaillant, “Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World”
Knopf / Penguin Random House

W kategorii Poezja, laureatem jest Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [åmot] (Omnidawn Publishing)

Finaliści w tej kategorii:

John Lee Clark, How to Communicate
W. W. Norton & Company

Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [åmot]
Omnidawn Publishing

Evie Shockley, suddenly we
Wesleyan University Press

Monica Youn, From From
Graywolf Press

 

W kategorii Literatura tłumaczona zwyciężył Stênio Gardel, The Words That Remain, Translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
(New Vessel Press)

Finaliści:

Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
Algonquin Books / Hachette Book Group

David Diop, Beyond the Door of No Return
Translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Stênio Gardel, The Words That Remain
Translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
New Vessel Press

Pilar Quintana, Abyss
Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
World Editions

Astrid Roemer, On a Woman’s Madness
Translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott
Two Lines Press

Literatura młodzieżowa Young People’s Literature należy doDan Santat, A First Time for Everything (First Second / Macmillan Publishers)

Finaliści tej kategorii:

Kenneth M. Cadow, Gather
Candlewick Press

Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

Vashti Harrison, Big
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers / Hachette Book Group

Katherine Marsh, The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
Roaring Brook Press / Macmillan Publishers

Dan Santat, A First Time for Everything
First Second / Macmillan Publishers

 

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