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National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nominees
The National Book Foundation honors two lifetime achievement winners and features 25 finalists, with nine previously recognized by the foundation, officials said.
- On Oct. 7, the National Book Foundation announced twenty-five finalists across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people's literature, narrowing long lists of 10.
- Panels of writers, critics and other members of the literary community narrowed long lists of 10 unveiled last month to five nominees per category.
- Among the nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar, while Yiyun Li's memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow is a nonfiction finalist alongside Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
- Winners, each of whom receive $10,000, will be revealed during a Nov. 19 dinner gala in downtown Manhattan, and the ceremony will livestream from New York City on the National Book Awards' website.
- The foundation will also honor George Saunders and Roxane Gay while fiction finalists span settings from India in the near future to 1930s Nebraska and contemporary Tokyo.
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National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nominees
Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar, and Karen Russell, along with a memoir by Yiyun Li, are among this year's National Book Award finalists.
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