Rebecca Makkai, “The Great Believers” Viking Books
Sigrid Nunez, “The Friend” Riverhead Books
Nominees for Nonfiction
Colin C. Calloway, “The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation” Oxford University Press
Victoria Johnson, “American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic” Liveright/ W.W. Norton
Sarah Smarsh, “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth” Scribner
Jeffrey C. Stewart, “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke” Oxford University Press
Adam Winkler, “We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights” Liveright/ W.W. Norton
Nominees for Poetry
Rae Armantrout, “Wobble” Wesleyan University Press
Terrance Hayes, “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin”Penguin Books
Diana Khoi Nguyen, “Ghost Of” Omnidawn Publishing
Justin Phillip Reed, “Indecency” Coffee House Press
Jenny Xie, “Eye Level” Graywolf Press
Nominees for Translated Literature
Négar Djavadi, “Disoriental” Translated by Tina Kover. Europa Editions
Hanne Ørstavik, “Love” Translated by Martin Aitken. Archipelago Books
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/books/national-book-awards.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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