With its Translated Literature award for authors and translators in its second year, the National Book Foundation announces its 2019 shortlisted titles.
US National Book Awards: 2019 Longlist in Translated Literature
Works from world literature in Arabic, Danish, Finnish, French, Japanese, Norwegian, and more are on the National Book Awards’ translated longlist.
US National Book Awards: 2019 Longlist in Young People’s Literature
Familiar faces–authors previously recognized–are behind six of this year’s 10 longlisted titles for National Book Awards in the young readers’ category.
Edmund White Is National Book Awards’ Distinguished Contribution Medalist
The iconic fiction and nonfiction writer of 20th-century American gay life, Edmund White, receives the medal from film director John Waters on November 20.
National Book Awards Honor Isabel Allende: ‘I’ve Found a Place’
The Chilean-American Isabel Allende receives the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards.
The UK’s National Book Awards Announce Holiday Season Shortlists
Designed ‘to find the best popular books of the year in the lead-up to Christmas,’ the UK’s Specsavers National Book Awards will end with a consumer vote.
AAP Opens 2019 PROSE Awards to Entries; National Book Awards Host Is Nick Offerman
The Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Awards for scholarly and professional books will be named in February. The National Book Awards winners ceremony is on November 14.
US National Book Awards Finalists: This Year Including Translations
There’s special interest at Frankfurt in the new category for translated literature, as the 2018 National Book Awards in America announce finalists.
National Book Awards Names 2018 Medalists: Isabel Allende and Doron Weber
Recognizing the careers of the Chilean-American author Isabel Allende and the science-foundation program director Doron Weber, the National Book Foundation’s medals are its lifetime achievement honors.
National Book Awards 2018 Longlist: Fiction
The 10 books longlisted by the National Book Foundation for the 2018 National Book Awards in fiction feature five titles from imprints of Penguin Random House and one each from Graywolf, McSweeney’s, Soho Press, Workman, and Simon & Schuster.