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ONLINE | 2020 National Book Awards Finalists Reading

Every year, The National Book Foundation teams up with The New School to present readings by each of the National Book Awards Finalists.


(Finalists will not appear in this order)


Fiction Finalists:
• Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
• Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible
• Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
• Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

• Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown


Nonfiction Finalists:
• Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
• Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
• Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
• Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
• Jerald Walker, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays


Poetry Finalists:
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars
• Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue
• Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony
• Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha
• Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem


Young People’s Literature finalists:
• Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies
• Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
• Candice Iloh, Every Body Looking
• Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, When Stars Are Scattered
• Gavriel Savit, The Way Back


Translated Literature Finalists:
• Anja Kampmann, High as the Waters Rise
• Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Family Clause
• Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
• Pilar Quintana, The Bitch
• Adania Shibli, Minor Detail


The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America. Since 1989, they have been overseen by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.


Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honors the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature published each year. 

Featuring Hala Alyan and K-Ming Chang. Moderated by Sadia Shepard.

 

Authors respectively of The Twenty-Ninth Year, Bestiary, The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves and A Sense of Home. Sponsored by Kundiman. Welcome remarks by Kyle Lucia Wu, Faculty, Creative Writing, Programs and Communications Manager, Kundiman.

 

Presented by the Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement.

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Every year, The National Book Foundation teams up with The New School to present readings by each of the National Book Awards Finalists.


(Finalists will not appear in this order)


Fiction Finalists:
• Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
• Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible
• Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
• Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

• Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown


Nonfiction Finalists:
• Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
• Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
• Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
• Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
• Jerald Walker, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays


Poetry Finalists:
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars
• Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue
• Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony
• Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha
• Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem


Young People’s Literature finalists:
• Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies
• Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
• Candice Iloh, Every Body Looking
• Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, When Stars Are Scattered
• Gavriel Savit, The Way Back


Translated Literature Finalists:
• Anja Kampmann, High as the Waters Rise
• Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Family Clause
• Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
• Pilar Quintana, The Bitch
• Adania Shibli, Minor Detail


The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America. Since 1989, they have been overseen by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.


Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honors the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature published each year. 

Featuring Hala Alyan and K-Ming Chang. Moderated by Sadia Shepard.

 

Authors respectively of The Twenty-Ninth Year, Bestiary, The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves and A Sense of Home. Sponsored by Kundiman. Welcome remarks by Kyle Lucia Wu, Faculty, Creative Writing, Programs and Communications Manager, Kundiman.

 

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