Poets Tretheway, Hayes on National Book Awards longlist
NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize winners Natasha Trethewey and Rae Armantrout are among those on the poetry longlist for the National Book Awards. Authors in the nonfiction category include Steve Coll, Sarah...
View ArticleTayari Jones and Tommy Orange among book award finalists
NEW YORK — Tayari Jones’ “An American Marriage” and Tommy Orange’s “There, There,” two of the year’s most talked-about novels, are on the fiction longlist for the National Book Awards. Other books...
View ArticleSloan Foundation programmer to receive honorary book award
NEW YORK — If you’re a fan of “Hidden Figures” and Margot Lee Shetterly’s story of three black female mathematicians’ contributions to the space program, you should thank in part the efforts of the...
View ArticleIsabel Allende to receive honorary National Book Award medal
NEW YORK — Isabel Allende, winner of an honorary National Book Award, sees no reason to discuss her legacy. “I think legacy is a very masculine word,” the author known for “The House of the Spirits”...
View ArticleLauren Groff, Jhumpa Lahiri among book award finalists
NEW YORK — A story collection by Lauren Groff, an Italian novel translated by Jhumpa Lahiri and poetry by Terrance Hayes were among the finalists announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards....
View ArticleColson Whitehead novel ‘The Nickel Boys’ coming next July
NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead’s next novel after “The Underground Railroad” is another look at the country’s tragic past. Doubleday announced Wednesday that Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” is set in a...
View ArticleCynthia Nixon among readers at Ursula K. Le Guin tribute
NEW YORK — The latest speech by Cynthia Nixon was political and literary. And it was written by Ursula K. Le Guin, the science fiction-fantasy author who died in January at age 88. The “Sex and the...
View ArticleSigrid Nunez’s novel “The Friend” wins National Book Award
NEW YORK — Sigrid Nunez’s “The Friend,” a meditative novel about grief, books and, not least, a Great Dane named Apollo, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Other winners Wednesday night...
View ArticleTulane profs’ books to be city reads in New Orleans, Philly
NEW ORLEANS — Novels by two Tulane University professors have been chosen for next year’s One Book, One City reading and discussion programs in New Orleans and Philadelphia. One Book, One Philadelphia...
View ArticleMarilyn Nelson given $100,000 award from Poetry Foundation
Marilyn Nelson is receiving a $100,000 lifetime achievement award from the Poetry Foundation, which also is honoring Naomi Shihab Nye and Terrance Hayes. The Chicago-based foundation announced Tuesday...
View ArticleAlan Brinkley, scholar of liberalism, dead at 70
NEW YORK — Alan Brinkley, an influential historian and academic who traced the evolution of liberalism from the New Deal to the 21st century and was a popular commentator on culture and politics, has...
View ArticleToni Morrison was a ‘literary mother’ to countless writers
NEW YORK — When author Angela Flournoy was asked to dress as her favorite literary character for a magazine shoot four years ago, she knew how to look the part: a wide and “severe hat,” a fur stole and...
View Article5 young poets each receive awards of $25,000
NEW YORK — Five young poets, including a National Book Award winner, have each received prizes worth just over $25,000. Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announced Tuesday that the Lilly Rosenberg...
View ArticleHead of booksellers association wins honorary award
NEW YORK — Oren Teicher, who as head of the American Booksellers Association presided over a resurgence of independent bookstores, is receiving an honorary National Book Award. Teicher has won the...
View ArticleEdmund White to receive honorary National Book Award
Winning an honorary National Book Award has Edmund White thinking about the more pleasurable moments of the writing life. “Everybody always complains about it, but it occurred to me the other day that...
View ArticleYoung people’s longlist announced for National Book Awards
NEW YORK — Laurie Halse Anderson, Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander are among the 10 authors on the young people’s literature longlist for the National Book Awards. The wide-ranging list, which...
View ArticleNational Book Awards list for translation has global reach
NEW YORK — Authors from Asia, Africa and South America are among those on the National Book Awards longlist for translated literature, a category started last year. The 10 fiction and nonfiction works...
View ArticleStrategist for Sen. Warren on longlist for poetry award
NEW YORK — Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s reach has extended into the world of literary prizes. A communications strategist for the Democratic presidential contender’s campaign is on the poetry longlist of...
View ArticleBooks on border wall, Tribe Called Quest on awards longlist
NEW YORK — A memoir by chef Iliana Regan and Hanif Abdurraqib’s best-selling chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest are among the works on the nonfiction longlist for the National Book Awards. The 10 books...
View ArticleNovels by Colson Whitehead, Marlon James on awards longlist
NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead’s brutal narrative of a boys’ reform school, “The Nickel Boys,” and Marlon James’ fantasy epic “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” are among the works chosen by judges for the fiction...
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