National Book Awards name 2026 finalists, with Danticat, Luiselli and Knausgaard in contention
The National Book Foundation has announced finalists across five categories; winners will be named at the 77th National Book Awards ceremony.
The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards on Tuesday, according to Literary Hub, covering the five usual categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature.
In fiction, finalists include novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli, according to The New York Times. In translated literature, a finalist list includes Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest book, per the same report.
The translated literature category also includes To the East of the East, a novel by the Taiwanese writer Ping Lu translated into English by Jeremy Tiang, according to an interview published by Words Without Borders with the author and translator about the book's journey from its original language into English.
Winners across all five categories will be revealed at the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner, Literary Hub reports. No French translations of these titles have been announced as of this writing.
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