Darrin Bell’s The Talk (Holt) and Jocelyne Allen’s translation of Susumu Higa manga Okinawa (Fantagraphics/Mangasplaining Extra) have been longlisted for the Non-Fiction 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, marking one other 12 months of inroads for graphic novels on this prestigious grownup literary award.
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the one ALA award for single-titles directed towards an grownup readership, is break up between fiction and grownup non-fiction classes. This 12 months’s Medal for Excellence featured 21 fiction and 24 nonfiction titles – 45 books in all – of which two graphic novels managed to make the reduce.
The Talk, an intimate graphic memoir about anti-blackness and police brutality in fashionable America; and Okinawa, through which the writer muses on the trendy historical past of the Japanese island, are the third wave of graphic novels to make the Medal of Excellence longlist. These titles comply with within the wake of 2022’s Fiction longlisted Keum Suk Gendry-Kim graphic novel The Waiting (translated by Janet Hong, printed by Drawn & Quarterly), plus 2023 Non-Fiction longlisters Emma Grove’s The Third Person and Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years within the Oil Sands (each additionally printed by Drawn & Quarterly). While no graphic novel has but made it to finalist, this stays a strong achievement of recognition for the medium.
The six-title shortlist might be declared November 14, 2023, with the winners within the introduced on the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Book & Media Awards on January 20, 2024 through the Baltimore LibLearnX weekend.
2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Selection Committee Chair Aryssa Damron stated about this 12 months’s picks:
“Our committee relished this amazing opportunity to read together and discuss so many amazing titles. With almost two decades of award committee experience between us all, we were continually excited to have this opportunity for reflection on our reading and to push ourselves to read further and wider than ever before. This long list represents the tireless work of these professionals who have truly bonded this past year over our love of books and our immense awe at each other’s ability to provide such nuanced engagement with each and every title that came across our desks. Chairing this astounding group of readers has been the joy of a lifetime as a leader and as a reader.”
The annual choice committee is often comprised of Booklist editors or contributors, members of RUSA’s CODES Notable Books Council, plus a consultant of the American Booksellers Association. The committee for this 12 months was:
- Aryssa Damron, Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library [2024 Selection Committee Chair]
- Montoya Barker, Special Collections Librarian, Indianapolis (Ind.) Public Library
- Lillian Dabney, Adult Services Librarian, Seattle (Wash.) Athenaeum;
- Marlene Harris, Reviewer, Reading Reality LLC;
- Audrey I-Wei Huang, Bookseller, Belmont Books in Belmont, Massachusetts;
- Laurie Unger Skinner, Librarian, Vernon Hills, Illinois;
- Hana Zittel, Community Outreach Manager, Denver (Colo.) Public Library
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence has been awarded yearly to grownup works of fiction and non-fiction within the United States since 2012. It is co-sponsored and administered by the American Library Association publication Booklist and RUSA, with the Carnegie Corporation serving as important sponsor. While having an identical identify, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence is to not be confused with the United Kingdom’s long-established kids’s Carnegie Medal for Writing, which started in 1936.
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