Date + Time
Date + Time
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Tuesday Nov 19, 20247:00 PM
About
About
The National Book Foundation and the NYU Creative Writing Program present readings by each of the 2024 National Book Award Finalists.
The 2024 National Book Awards Finalist Reading will be hosted by Brittany Luse, award–winning journalist, cultural critic, and the host of It’s Been a Minute from NPR.
Each year, the Finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature gather the evening before the National Book Awards Ceremony to read excerpts from their honored works.
The event will be presented in person at NYU Skirball and livestreamed. If you’re unable to attend in person, please register for the livestream on the National Book Foundation’s website.
To learn more about the 2024 National Book Awards Finalists and to support the year-round work of the National Book Foundation, please visit nationalbook.org/awards.
Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation and the NYU Creative Writing Program.
Finalists
Fiction Finalists:
‘Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots Kaveh Akbar, Martyr! Percival Everett, James Miranda July, All Fours Hisham Matar, My Friends
Nonfiction Finalists:
Jason De León, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church Kate Manne, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender
Poetry Finalists:
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma Fady Joudah, […] m.s. RedCherries, mother Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Something About Living
Translated Literature Finalists:
Bothayna Al-Essa, and translators Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain, The Book Censor’s Library Linnea Axelsson and translator Saskia Vogel, Ædnan Fiston Mwanza Mujila, and translator Roland Glasser, The Villain’s Dance Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King, Taiwan Travelogue Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price, Where the Wind Calls Home
Young People’s Literature Finalists:
Violet Duncan, Buffalo Dreamer Josh Galarza, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky Erin Entrada Kelly, The First State of Being Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between Angela Shanté, The Unboxing of a Black Girl
ABOUT THE HOST:
Please email Emily Lovett at [email protected] with any questions and accessibility requests.
Schedule
Schedule
Doors open at 6:30pm, and the program begins at 7:00pm EST.
The artist
The artist
Brittany Luse
Brittany Luse is an award–winning journalist, on-air host, and cultural critic. She is currently the host of It’s Been a Minute, a podcast and nationally syndicated radio show from NPR. Previously, Luse hosted For Colored Nerds, The Nod, and Sampler podcasts, and co-hosted and executive produced The Nod with Brittany and Eric, a daily streaming show. She’s written for Vulture and Harper’s Bazaar, among others, and edited for the podcasts Planet Money and Not Past It. Luse and her work have been profiled by publications like the New York Times, The New Yorker and Teen Vogue.
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