Een van de belangrijkste Amerikaanse prijzen is de National Book Award. Op 16 november worden de prijzen uitgereikt, maar deze week werden de genomineerden bekendgemaakt:

Fictie

Chris Bachelder – The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)

Paulette Jiles – News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)

Karan Mahajan – The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)

Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)

Jacqueline Woodson – Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)

Non-fictie

Arlie Russell Hochschild – Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press)

Ibram X. Kendi – Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books)

Viet Thanh Nguyen – Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press)

Andrés Reséndez – The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Heather Ann Thompson – Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)

Poëzie

Daniel Borzutzky – The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)

Rita Dove – Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)

Peter Gizzi – Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)

Jay Hopler – The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)

Solmaz Sharif – Look (Graywolf Press)

Jeugdliteratuur

Kate DiCamillo – Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist) – March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions / IDW Publishing)

Grace Lin – When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Jason Reynolds – Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

Nicola Yoon – The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House)

De winnaar in elke categorie krijgt 10.000 dollar en een bronzen beeldje.