Longlist, Shortlist, Preisverleihung. Es nimmt kein Ende.
Heute meldet sich der National Book Award mit den Finalisten. Leider ist davon bisher so gut wie nichts in Deutschland erschienen. Und so sieht die Liste aus (die Verlinkungen führen zu den jeweiligen Einträgen auf der Seite des National Book Award):
Fiction:
- Karen E. Bender: Refund: Stories. Counterpoint Press.
- Angela Flournoy: The Turner House. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Lauren Groff: Fates and Furies. Riverhead Books.
- Adam Johnson: Fortune Smiles: Stories. Random House (dt: Nirvana: Stories. Suhrkamp.)
- Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life. Doubleday.
Non-Fiction:
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me. Spiegel & Grau.
- Sally Mann: Hold Still. Little, Brown.
- Sy Montgomery: The Soul of an Octopus. Simon & Schuster.
- Carla Power: If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran. Henry Holt and Company.
- Tracy K. Smith: Ordinary Light. Alfred A. Knopf.
Poetry:
- Ross Gay: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Terrance Hayes: How to Be Drawn. Penguin.
- Robin Coste Lewis: Voyage of the Sable Venus. Alfred A. Knopf.
- Ada Limón: Bright Dead Things. Milkweed Editions.
- Patrick Phillips: Elegy for a Broken Machine. Alfred A. Knopf.
Young People’s Literature:
- Ali Benjamin: The Thing About Jellyfish. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
- Laura Ruby: Bone Gap. Balzer + Bray.
- Steve Sheinkin: Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War. Roaring Brook Press.
- Neal Shusterman: Challenger Deep. HarperCollins Children’s Books.
- Noelle Stevenson: Nimona. HarperTeen.
Die Auflösung gibt’s am 18.11.
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