The National Book Awards announced their poetry longlist, naming Terrance Hayes, who won the prize for Lighthead in 2010, and former finalist Rae Armantrout. Also on the list is two-term US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey. The full list of candidates: Rae Armantrout, Wobble (Wesleyan University Press) Jos Charles, feeld (Milkweed Editions) Forrest Gander, Be With (New Directions) Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Books) J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas (Penguin Books) Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing) Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency (Coffee House Press) Raquel Salas Rivera, lo terciario / […]
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Next, the Longlist for the New NBA Translation Award
The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for its inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature. Titles in contention include eight novels, one story collection, and one work of nonfiction. The candidates were originally published in nine languages including French, Spanish, Arabic, Tamil, Norwegian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Russian. Negar Djavadi, Disoriental, Translated by Tina Kover (Europa Editions) Roque Larraquy, Comemadre, Translated by Heather Cleary (Coffee House Press) Dunya Mikhail, The Beekeeper, Translated by Dunya Mikhail and Max Weiss (New Directions Publishing) Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman, Translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Black Cat) Hanne Orstavik, Love, Translated by Martin Aitken […]
NBA Longlists Begin With Young People’s Literature
The National Book Awards longlists roll out Wednesday through Friday this week, with the finalists to be announced on October 10. Winners will be named on November 14. First up is Young People’s Literature, which includes previous nominee Elizabeth Partridge, as well as M.T. Anderson, who won the prize in 2006 for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Of the ten titles, four were published by HarperCollins, and three by Penguin Random House. The full list: Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X (Harper Teen) M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge (Candlewick Press) Bryan Bliss, We’ll Fly Away (Greenwillow Books) Leslie Connor, […]
Enger’s Virgil Wander Tops October Indie Next List
The ABA named Virgil Wander by Leif Enger as its No. 1 pick for October. Other picks include Stuart Turton’s The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, and Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: Waiting for Eden, by Elliot Ackerman November Road, by Lou Berney Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult The Real Lolita, by Sarah Weinman Transcription, by Kate Atkinson Night Moves, by Jessica Hopper Man With a Seagull on His Head, […]
September iBooks Picks
iBooks announced its Best of September list, which includes Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler, and Alexa Martin’s Intercepted, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Romance collection. The rest of the picks: The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason Transcription, by Kate Atkinson Three Little Lies, by Laura Marshall Football for a Buck, by Jeff Pearlman Vengeful, by V.E. Schwab An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green Washington Black, Esi Edugyan 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari Just Mercy, by Bryan A. Stevenson Lake Success, by Gary Shteyngart Heartland, by […]
Briefs: A New Marquez, Salinger’s 100th, Center for Fiction Nominees, and More
Forthcoming Vintage Español will published a selection of journalism by the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, El Escándalo del Siglo (October 23, 2018). An English-language edition of The Scandal of the Century will be published by Knopf in May 2019. The book will include an introduction by Jon Lee Anderson and an editor’s note by Cristóbal Pera, Márquez’s longtime editor and friend, who also selected the articles that appear in the book. Awards The Center for Fiction has announced the seven title shortlist for its $10,000 First Novel Prize, with the winner to be named on December 11: Asymmetry, […]