The finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards have been announced! Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation. The awards currently cover the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature. The five finalists for each category were selected by a panel of judges.
Finalists for Fiction:
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding
- The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
- Blackouts by Justin Torres
Finalists for Nonfiction:
- The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk
- Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
- Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
- We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh
- Fire Weather by John Vaillant
Finalists for Poetry:
- How to Communicate by John Lee Clark
- From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez
- Suddenly We by Evie Shockley
- Tripas by Brandon Som
- From From by Monica Youn
Finalists for Translated Fiction:
- Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung & translated from Korean by Anton Hur
- Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop & translated from French by Sam Taylor
- The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel & translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
- Abyss by Pilar Quintana & translated from Spanish by Lisa Dillman
- On a Woman’s Madness by Astrid Roemer & translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott
Finalists for Young People’s Literature:
- Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow
- Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy
- Big by Vashti Harrison
- The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
- A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
