Longlists Announced for 2022 National Book Awards

The longlists for the 2022 National Book Awards (NBA) had been introduced on September 14–16. The awards are divided into 5 classes: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.

Among the judges for this yr’s awards are Ben Fountain, Brandon Hobson, Pam Houston, Dana Johnson, and Michelle Malonzo for Fiction; Carol Anderson, Melissa Febos, Thor Hanson, Janet Webster Jones, and Oscar Villalon for Nonfiction; Kwame Dawes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Keetje Kuipers, January Gill O’Neil, and Mai Der Vang for Poetry; Nick Buzanski, Veronica Esposito, Ann Goldstein, Rohan Kamicheril, and Russell Scott Valentino for Translated Literature; and Becky Albertalli, Joseph Bruchac, Meghan Dietsche Goel, Jewell Parker Rhodes, and Lilliam Rivera for Young People’s Literature.

Here are the titles which were longlisted:

Fiction

Eight of the ten books on this class are fiction debuts. Here’s the longlist:

Nonfiction

The longlist for nonfiction options memoirs, science writing, biographies of American political personalities, investigations of U.S. and worldwide historical past, and different books. With the exception of two authors, the majority of the longlisted authors on this class are new to the National Book Awards and the National Book Foundation. Here are the nominees:

Poetry

Poets from all phases of their careers, together with two poets with debut poetry collections, are included on this class. These are the collections which were longlisted:

Translated Literature

The ten works on this class had been first printed in Arabic, Danish, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, and Spanish. Here are they:

• Ibn Arabi’s Small Death by Mohammed Hasan Alwan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
• A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls
• Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour, translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili
• Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
• Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker
• The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken
• Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
• Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, translated from the German by Damion Searls
• Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft

Young People’s Literature

The nominees on this class embrace novels that “address gender and sexuality, racism and xenophobia, and self-esteem and self-acceptance.” Here are the titles that made the lower:

Twenty-five finalist books will probably be revealed on October 4, and the winners for every class will probably be unveiled on November 16 in New York City throughout an in-person awards occasion. Each winner will get $10,000, whereas every finalist will bag $1,000. For the Translated Literature award, the creator and translator every obtain an equal share of the prize cash.

The National Book Awards, which had been established in 1950, honor nice works of writing by American authors. Writers who’ve acquired them embrace Philip Roth, Ursula Ok. Le Guin, Frank O’Hara, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, and Elizabeth Acevedo amongst others.

Find extra literary awards information in Breaking In Books, together with 2022 Hugo Awards.