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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 14 october 2019

Marlon James, Laili Lalami are National Book Award nominees

By HILLEL ITALIE phen Snyder) and Pajtim
Associated Press Statovci's "Crossing" (trans-
NEW YORK (AP) — Marlon lated from the Finnish by
James fantasy novel "Black David Hackston).
Leopard, Red Wolf," Laila In poetry, finalists besides
Lalami's immigrant tale Derricotte's "I: New and Se-
"The Other Americans" and lected Poems" were Jericho
Jason Reynolds' neighbor- Brown's "The Tradition," Ilya
hood story "Look Both Ways" Kaminsky's "Deaf Republic,"
are among this year's final- Carmen Giménez Smith's
ists for the 70th annual Na- This combination photo of book cover images shows, from left, "Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in "Be Recorder" and Arthur
tional Book Awards. Nomi- Ten Blocks," by Jason Reynolds, "Disappearing Earth," by Julia Phillips, "Sabrina & Corina," by Kali Sze's "Sight Lines." Nominees
nees announced Tuesday Fajardo-Anstine, "The Other Americans," by Laila Lalami, and "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" by Marlon besides Reynolds in young
also include Albert Wood- James. people's literature were Ak-
fox, the former prison in- Associated Press waeke Emezi's "Pet," Randy
mate who spent more than any kind of recognition, in the competitive catego- Heartbeat of Wounded Ribay's "Patron Saints of
40 years in solitary con- including poetry nominee ries each receive $10,000. Knee: Native America from Nothing," Laura Ruby's "Thir-
finement in the Louisiana Toi Derricotte, a recipient James and Lalami were 1890 to the Present." teen Doorways, Wolves Be-
State Penitentiary before of an honorary National chosen for fiction, along The translation nominees hind Them All" and Martin
his murder conviction was Book Award in 2016 for co- with Susan Choi's "Trust Exer- were Khaled Khalifa's W. Sandler's "1919 The Year
overturned and he was re- founding the poetry center cise," Kali Fajardo-Anstine's "Death Is Hard Work" (trans- That Changed America."
leased, in 2016. His memoir Cave Canem. This year's "Sabrina & Corina" and lated from the Arabic by Leri Ten of the 25 nominated
"Solitary," written with Les- winners will be announced Julia Phillips' "Disappear- Price), László Krasznahork- books, including four out
lie George, is a finalist for Nov. 20 at a benefit dinner ing Earth." In nonfiction, ai's "Baron Wenckheim's of five in fiction, were re-
nonfiction. Five nominees in New York City, with LeVar nominees besides Wood- Homecoming" (translated leased by Penguin Ran-
were announced in each Burton serving as host and fox were Sarah M. Broom's from the Hungarian by Ot- dom House, the country's
of five categories, ranging honorary prizes going to "The Yellow House," Tressie tilie Mulzet), Scholastique largest publisher. Another
from fiction to translation to author Edmund White and McMillan Cottom's "Thick: Mukasonga's "The Bare- 10 came from university
young people's literature. to Oren Teicher, CEO of the And Other Essays," Carolyn foot Woman" (translated and independent presses.
None of the finalists has American Booksellers As- Forché's "What You Have from the French by Jordan The finalists were voted on
ever won a competitive sociation. The awards are Heard is True: A Memoir of Stump), Yoko Ogawa's "The by judging panels of au-
National Book Award and presented by the National Witness and Resistance" Memory Police" (translated thors, critics and others in
only four have received Book Foundation. Winners and David Treuer's "The from the Japanese by Ste- the literary community.q