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2021 National Book Awards Finalists Reading (US)
Every year, The National Book Foundation teams up with The New School to present readings by each of the National Book Awards Finalists.
The live stream link will be shared closer to the event date.
(Finalists will not appear in this order)
Translated Literature Finalists:
• Samar Yazbek and Leri Price, Planet of Clay (World Editions)
• Elisa Shua Dusapin and Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Winter in Sokcho
• Ge Fei and Canaan Morse, Peach Blossom Paradise
• Nona Fernández and Natasha Wimmer, The Twilight Zone
• Benjamín Labatut and Adrian Nathan West, When We Cease to Understand the World
Fiction Finalists:
• Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land
• Lauren Groff, Matrix
• Laird Hunt, Zorrie
• Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets
• Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
Nonfiction Finalists:
• Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
• Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
• Grace M. Cho, Tastes Like War: A Memoir
• Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
• Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Poetry Finalists:
• Desiree C. Bailey, What Noise Against the Cane
• Martín Espada, Floaters
• Douglas Kearney, Sho
• Hoa Nguyen, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
• Jackie Wang, The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
Young People’s Literature Finalists:
• Shing Yin Khor, The Legend of Auntie Po
• Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
• Kyle Lukoff, Too Bright to See
• Kekla Magoon, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
• Amber McBride, Me (Moth)
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.
Hosted by The New School. Presented by the Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement.
This event is free and open to all. Registration is required. This event will be live streamed through Vimeo. Livestream link will be shared closer to the event date.