US EditionAll Eyes in Publishing Are Turned to the 76th Annual National Book Awards
The 76th National Book Awards honored authors across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people's, and translated literature with $10,000 prizes in Manhattan.
- The 76th National Book Awards unveiled this year's winners on Wednesday night, with novels by Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell, and a memoir by Yiyun Li among the finalists.
- Winners were announced across five categories- fiction, nonfiction, translated literature, young people's literature and poetry, each receiving $10,000.
- Rabih Alameddine won the fiction prize for 'The True True Story of Raja the Gullible ,' Patricia Smith won for poetry with 'The Intentions of Thunder,' and Omar El Akkad won nonfiction for 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
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Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder.” Related Articles This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores These 2025 children’s books make great holiday gifts …
Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder.” Related Articles 6 novels set in the American West featuring cowboys and complexity Han Kang, Megha Majumdar and Yiyun Li are among finalists …
Who Is Patricia Smith? The Award-Winning Poet Redefining American Literature
Source: Eugene Gologursky / Getty Congratulations are in order for Poet Patricia Smith. On Nov. 19, the esteemed poet and author received one of literature’s highest honors: the National Book Award in Poetry for her newest collection, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, according to NPR. The 70-year-old poet triumphed in a competitive field that included Gabrielle Calvocoressi (The New Economy), Cathy Linh Che (Becoming Ghost), Ti…
Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards
The night’s honorees expressed gratitude for prizes bestowed and for literature itself, and horror and disenchantment at the political and social climate, from immigration raids in the U.S. by masked agents to the carnage in the Middle East.
Argentine literature makes history in the 76th edition of the National Book Awards. With the English version of the novel Las niñas del naranjel (Random House), translated by the U.S. state Robin Myers as We Are Green and Trembling (New Directions), writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, who on the 4th birthday of 57 years old, won the prestigious award in the translated literature category. “I’m going to speak in Spanish because I know that some fasci…
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