National Book Awards are almost here: See the finalists

Book lovers, listen up: It’s nearly time for the literary world’s most coveted night – the 2024 National Book Awards. 
Twenty-five finalists, announced Tuesday, will vie for the prize in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. The winning titles will receive $10,000, a bronze medal and a statue. Finalists will receive $1,000 and a bronze medal. 
National Book Awards winners will be announced at the 75th annual awards ceremony on Nov. 20 in New York. The event will be broadcast live on YouTube, Facebook and the National Book Foundation’s website.
The National Book Awards have been honoring the best in literature since 1950.
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Notable past winners include William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker and Ta-Nehisi Coates. This year’s finalists come from more than 1,900 works submitted by publishers. Five of the 25 titles are debuts and 10 university or independent publishers are represented, according to the foundation’s news release.
Here’s the full list:
Finalists for fiction
Finalists for nonfiction
Finalists for poetry
Finalists for translated literature:
Finalists for young people’s literature