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The novelist Lauren Groff and the poet Terrance Hayes are among the finalists for the 2018 Book Awards announced this morning by the National Book Foundation. Groff, whose "Fates and Furies" was President Obama's favorite novel in 2015, is preparing to receive the Fiction Prize for his new collection of short stories, "Florida." Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry for "Lighthead" in 2010, is a finalist this year for her new collection entitled "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin".
The fictional finalists include two books on the first story of the United States: "The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, The First Americans and the Birth of the Nation", by Colin G. Calloway, and "American Eden : David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the First Republic, "by Victoria Johnson.
Mr. T. Anderson is a finalist in the Children's Literature Award for "The Murder of Brangwain Spurge", illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. Anderson won the award in 2006 for "The Pox Party".
The news this morning was particularly exciting for Graywolf Press, a small publisher in Minneapolis that has two books among the finalists: "A Lucky Man", a first collection of short stories by Jamel Brinkley (Fiction) and "Eye Level" by Jenny Xie (Poetry).
The winners of this year's National Book Awards will be unveiled at a ceremony in New York on November 14th. Each award-winning author will receive $ 10,000 and a bronze sculpture. Each finalist will receive $ 1,000.
This year, the foundation has added a fifth category: translated literature. The judges of this new award have considered works of fiction and fiction by authors from around the world. The other four categories – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and youth literature – are limited to author's books that are US citizens.
Here are all the finalists of the 2018 awards:
(Riverhead)
fiction
"A Lucky Man" by Jamel Brinkley (Graywolf).
"Florida", by Lauren Groff (Riverhead). Read our review.
"Where the dead are sitting talking," by Brandon Hobson (Soho).
"Great Believers" by Rebecca Makkai (Viking).
"The friend", Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead).
Non-fiction
"George Washington's Indian World: The First President, The First Americans, And The Birth Of The Nation" by Colin G. Calloway (Oxford Univ.
"American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the First Republic", by Victoria Johnson (Liveright).
"Heartland: A memoir to work hard and be broke in the richest country in the world," by Sarah Smarsh (Scribner). Read our review.
"The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke", by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford Univ Press).
"We, the companies: how American companies won their civil rights," by Adam Winkler (Liveright). Read our review.
[The National Book Foundation singles out the five best young writers in America]
Youth Literature
"The poet X", by Elizabeth Acevedo (HarperTeen)
"The Murder of Brangwain Spurge", by Mr. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin (Candlewick)
"The truth told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor (Katherine Tegen)
"Little Charlie's Journey" by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
"Hey, Kiddo" by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic / Graphix)
(Wesleyan)
Poetry
"Wobble" by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan Univ Press). Read our review.
"American sonnets for my past and future assassin", by Terrance Hayes (Penguin). Read our review.
"Ghost Of" by Diana Khoi Nguyen (Omnidawn).
"Indecency", by Justin Phillip Reed (Coffee House).
"Eye Level" by Jenny Xie (werewolf). Read our review.
Translated literature
"Disoriental, by Négar Djavadi, translated from French by Tina Kover (Europa).
"Love" by Hanne Ørstavik, Norwegian translation by Martin Aitken (Archipelago).
"Trick", by Domenico Starnone, translated from Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri (Europa). Read our review.
"The Emissary", by Yoko Tawada, translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions).
"Flights," by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead)
To be eligible, the books for this year's awards must have been published between December 1, 2017 and November 30, 2018. The National Book Awards were created in 1950.
Ron Charles writes about books for the Washington Post and hosts TotallyHipVideoBookReview.com.
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