She served on the Bookseller Advisory Council for the American Booksellers Association. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. (Photo credit: Dave Londres), Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels. (Photo credit: Lucas Michael), Brad Johnson is the owner of East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, California. The category Poetry was established in 1950 and has been awarded annually save the … She has been a board member of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was Longlisted for the National Book Award. Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. Leslie holds a BFA in Fine Art from the University of Connecticut. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, his writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Believer, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She is the author of two poetry collections, When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem, a Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. In nonfiction, “The Dead Are Arising” marks the second time in the past decade that a Malcolm X biographer was posthumously cited by awards judges. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, and an Edgar Award. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys hiking, egg painting, bonsai gardening, and hosting game nights for family and friends. Using the … A member of the Akwesasne Kanienkehaka (Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe), Aaron has judged for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance prizes, and the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. Winners are to be announced at the National Book Awards Ceremony and its benefit dinner on November 14. This list only covers the current version of the National Book Award for Translated Literature from its new inaugural addition in 2018. (Photo credit: Melissa Schmidt), Luis Alberto Urrea (Chair) is a Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the bestselling author of 18 books. (Photo credit: Apple Chua), Elizabeth Willis is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently lead faculty at Sierra Nevada University’s MFA program and lives in Miami with his familia. Chair, ... 2020 National Book Awards Ballot Judge Name. Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. (Photo credit: Richard Louissant), NBF Presents: Colleges, Libraries & Festivals. She also wrote The Borrower (Penguin Books, 2012), The Hundred-Year House (Penguin Books, 2015), and the collection Music for Wartime (Penguin … Two of the summer's most talked about novels, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Megha Majumdar's A Burning, are on the National Book Awards fiction longlist. As leader of the Mountain Goats, he sings songs about survival strategies and pagan uprisings; as author of Master of Reality, Wolf in White Van, and Universal Harvester, he explores interior worlds of grief, obsession, inclusion or exclusion, and self-identification. He has taught at a number of institutions including the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Texas at Austin, Rutgers University-Newark where he served as the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor, and at the University of Michigan, where he currently serves as the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of English Language & Literature and as Director of the Helen Zell Writers MFA Program. https://www.nationalbook.org/2019-national-book-awards-judges A Kundiman fellow, she currently teaching in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh starting in Fall 2020. His new novel, The Removed, is forthcoming from Ecco in 2021. (Photo credit: Zoë Rodriguez), Rigoberto González is the author of 17 books of poetry and prose. The judges are Roxane Gay (chair), Cristina Henríquez, Laird Hunt, Rebecca Makkai, and Keaton Patterson. She lives in California with her fast dog. for updates on our programs,the National Book Awards, and more, Fiction – Nonfiction – Poetry – Translated Literature – Young People’s Literature, March 17: National Book Awards entry form opens, May 12: Deadline for entry form submission, May 28: Digital copies of submitted titles published from December 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 are due, June 30: Digital copies of submitted titles published from July 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021 are due, November 17: 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony (Winners announced), Alan Michael Parker has written four novels, including Christmas in July and The Committee on Town Happiness, and nine collections of poems. (Photo credit: Cybele Knowles, 2013, Courtesy of the University of Arizona Poetry Center), Jessie Chaffee’s debut novel, Florence in Ecstasy, was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017 and was translated into six languages. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a Professor of English at the University of Southern California. White Read Aloud. The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.Since 1987 the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers". If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. She divides her time between the red rock desert of Utah and Cambridge, Massachusetts. A total of 388 books were submitted for this year’s National Book Award for fiction. She writes opinion pieces for the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and other journals when not painting self-portraits and reading artist’s books that visualize people and history. (Photo credit: Nisreen Breek), Chair – Terry Tempest Williams is the author of sixteen books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, a New York Times bestseller; and her latest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing. (Photo credit: Anna Min of Min Enterprises Photography LLC), Colleen AF Venable is the author of the National Book Award Longlisted Kiss Number 8, a graphic novel co-created with Ellen T. Crenshaw. In addition to winning the 92Y “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest, 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Colorado Book Award, she was also a Finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical hit and a national bestseller. His novels have received honors from the American Library Association Youth Media Awards and included on over thirty state award lists. She teaches nonfiction writing at Northwestern University. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. (Photo credit: East Bay Booksellers), Chair – Dinaw Mengestu is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: All Our Names, How To Read the Air, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. He is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, Newark, where he teaches close reading, critical thinking, and creative writing in the history department and in the MFA program in creative writing. National Book Award 2018 Judging Panels. He is the co-translator, with Ostap Kin, of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, forthcoming in 2020; Hennessy and Kin won the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation from Poetry magazine for work included in this book. The National Book Foundation has announced its judges … He’s also a high school English teacher and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Photo credit: Sharon Daniels). She is a creative nonfiction writer and has an MFA from Hamline University. She is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Alan Michael Parker has written four novels, including Christmas in July and The Committee on Town Happiness,... NONFICTION. William Cole explained this in a New York Times column pessimistically entitled "The Last of the National Book Awards" but the Awards were "saved" by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1976. Aaron John Curtis has had essays in City Link Magazine, World Book Night’s inaugural eBook, The Selkie, and in the collection Badass: Lip Service True Stories. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and Stories of Scottsboro was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Three were called "the most distinguished of 1935" (novel, biography, an… The National Book Award is less extreme, but women have won only 16 times in … Her book On Immunity: An... POETRY. (Photo credit: Nancy Nichols), A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of, which was selected for publication by Terrance Hayes in the Omnidawn Open Contest. Matthea Harvey is the author of five books of poetry—If the Tabloids are True What Are You?, Of Lamb (an illustrated erasure with images by Amy Jean Porter), Modern Life (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a New York Times Notable Book), Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She grew up in Iowa and lives in Beacon, NY with her wife, cats, and several books. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Chair – Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States , The Beacon Best of 2000 , Haiti Noir , Haiti Noir 2 , and Best American Essays 2011 . She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. A full list of judges is available on the National Book Foundations’ website. We were all very conscious of the fact that literary awards have long favored male authors. Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards. The 2021 Oregon Book Award winners will be announced on May 2, 2021, on a special episode of The Archive Project, airing The judges in poetry include Nikky Finney, (Photo credit: Joanna Tillman), Bestselling author David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. (Photo credit: John Darnielle), Anne Ishii is a writer, editor and translator, who for the past ten years has worked specifically to achieve visibility and recognition for art and artists that touches on issues of gender and sexuality in the Asian diaspora. Her work has been supported by the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, and Programa Sur. Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner, and the novels-in-stories, The Dew Breaker and Claire of the Sea Light. The National Book Award is less extreme, but women have won only 16 times in its 67-year history—three out of the last 10. A former Detroit Public Schools teacher and National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, she is an expert on diversity and representation in children’s literature, youth media, and fan culture. He is a Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at Emerson College. He is the director of the Written Arts program at Bard College. She has been a bookseller for twenty-eight years. NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the summer’s most talked about novels, Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” and Megha Majumdar’s “A Burning,” are on the National Book Awards fiction longlist. (Photo credit: Cassie Schulz), James Goodman is the author of essays, short stories, book reviews, letters, and three books, Stories of Scottsboro, Blackout, and But Where Is the Lamb? She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Magazine. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. BRANDON HOBSON is the author of three novels, including Where the Dead Sit Talking (Soho Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, winner of the Reading the West Award, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and one of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of 2018. He has been a judge for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firestarter Award for Fiction and the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Poetry. The National Book Award judges include (clockwise, from top left) Alexander Chee, Dave Eggers, Ruth Franklin and Jacqueline Woodson. Upcoming Events Donate Contact Us. … for updates on our programs, the National Book Awards, and more. His most recent book, Inseparable was also a finalist for the NBCC award and was named Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, NPR, and Newsweek. A total of 388 books were submitted for this year’s National Book Award for fiction. Literary Arts selects out-of-state judges for the Oregon Book Awards based on their extensive experience and literary expertise. He is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, The Bridge/Il Ponte Book Award, and was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger. He co-wrote his most recent novel, Dry, with his son Jarrod, and in addition to being on numerous award lists, Dry is currently in development with Paramount Pictures. 2021 National Book Awards Judges FICTION. Charles Baxter was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction in 2000 for The Feast of Love. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. Judges also nominated the story collection “If I Had Two Wings,” by Randall Kenan, who died in August. She lives in Oakland, CA with her family. (Photo credit: Tina Chiou). (Photo credit: Reginald Cunningham), Cristina Henríquez is the author of the novels The Book of Unknown Americans and The World in Half and of the short story collection Come Together, Fall Apart. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for Challenger Deep. (Photo credit: Michael Lionstar), A Guggenheim Fellow and a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Yunte Huang is the author of Charlie Chan, which won the Edgar Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Randy earned his BA in English Literature from CU-Boulder and his Ed.M. (Photo credit: Mary Lou Prince), Heather Cleary is a writer and translator from the Spanish whose work has been longlisted or shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the Best Translated Book Award, and the National Translation Award. The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field". Judges also nominated the story collection If I Had Two Wings, by Randall Kenan, who died in August. Charles Yu, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Ibi Zoboi are among the judges for the 2021 National Book Awards. She is a recipient of the Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, the International Griffin Poetry Prize (Translation), and a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, Ibi lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three teenage children. She is also the author of Pride, a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is in development with HBO as a limited series; and editor of the anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. The National Book Foundation has opened the submissions process for the National Book Awards and announced the 25 judges who will determine the list of nominees for the 2018 awards. (Photo credit: Susan Aurinko), A lifelong Texan, Keaton Patterson is the lead buyer for Brazos Bookstore in Houston. She has also published two children’s books, Cecil the Pet Glacier, illustrated by Giselle Potter, and The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. (Photo credit: Song Got). National Book Awards for Fiction. Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz, and Megan Maxwell, among others. They are awards "by writers to writers". He holds a MA in American Literature and lives with his wife and son in Pearland. Each genre has three judges, and judges select the finalists and winners in each genre. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors. Her most recent novel, The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, was a national bestseller, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards. He has a PhD in Literature, Theology and the Arts from the University of Glasgow. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Virginia Kirkus chaired the central committee of seven including the ABA president, three bookshops, Publishers Weekly, and American News Company. In 2019, Terry Tempest Williams was given The Robert Kirsch Award, a lifetime achievement prize given to a writer with a substantial contribution to the American West. Her most recent New York Times bestseller, Punching the Air, co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, is a Walter Award winner and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His articles and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Jane, and Rolling Stone. The 2013 National Book Awards judges are: Fiction. A Guggenheim fellow in poetry, Willis currently teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. (Photo credit: Michael Lionstar), Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest. His novel Scythe was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book, and is in development with Universal Studios as a feature film. The National Book Foundation announced the list of judges in a news release Wednesday. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Achy Obejas is the author of the forthcoming Boomerang/Bumerán, a bilingual poetry collection, as well as The Tower of the Antilles, which was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, among other honors. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Time… Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, BOMB and elsewhere. Neal lives in Jacksonville, Florida, but spends much of his time travelling the world speaking, and signing books for readers. (Photo credit: Brave Lux, Joe Mazza), Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. A temporary administrator, the Committee on Awards Policy, "begged" judges not to split awards, yet three of ten awards were split. The judges for the 2013 National Book Awards were announced today. Of the 112 Nobel laureates in literature, only 13 have been women. (Photo credit: Stuart Greenberg), Chair – Joan Trygg is general manager at Red Balloon Bookshop in Saint Paul, where she has been since 2004. The judges for the 2020 National Book Awards were announced earlier today and among the twenty-five esteemed writers, translators, critics, educators, and booksellers signed on to read though the cream of this year’s literary crop is none other than The Mountain Goats founder and indie-rock legend John Darnielle, who will be joining Dinaw Mengestu, Heather Cleary, Brad Johnson, and Anne Ishii on … (Photo credit: Jonathan Blanc, NYPL), Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. The winners were authors of four 1935 books selected by a vote of ABA members. (Photo credit: Rachel Beser), Stephen Snyder (Chair) serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Language Schools at Middlebury College. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Lifetime Achievement; 5 Under 35; Innovations in Reading Prize; Public … (Photo credit: Cindy Palmer), Pablo Cartaya is the award-winning author of The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish, and Each Tiny Spark. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery" or "Most Original Book" was sometimes a novel. He is currently director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Judges Citation. (Photo credit: Zoe Milenkovic), Traci Chee is a best-selling and award-winning author of books for young people, including the instant New York Times bestseller The Reader and Michael L. Printz Honor Book and National Book Award Finalist We Are Not Free. Her forthcoming title, A Thousand Steps into Night, is a Japanese-influenced YA fantasy. Her titles have appeared on many state reading lists. The submissions process for the awards opened on Wednesday, March 14. The judges were decried by some for picking five finalists whose similarities – that all five of them were women hailing from NYC – were hard to ignore, and whose lack of name recognition left many perplexed. He’s the author of An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, After the Shot Drops, and Patron Saints of Nothing, which was selected as a Finalist for the National Book Award. She was the recipient of a Fulbright to Italy, and she is a contributing writer at Words Without Borders, where she previously edited WWB Daily. The Round House Winner, National Book Awards 2012 for Fiction. His most recent book, The House of Broken Angels was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. REBECCA MAKKAI is the author of The Great Believers (Viking, 2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, one of the New York Times ‘ Top Ten Books for 2018, winner of the LA Times Book Prize, the ALA Carnegie Medal, and others. Roxane Gay. (Photo credit: MOCHEE), Nell Painter (Chair), the author of The History of White People; Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol; and Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over, is Madame Chairman of MacDowell’s Board of Directors. He was also included in The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list in 2010. The judges in fiction include Charles Baxter, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2000 for The Feast of Love; Gish Jen, the author of four novels and a collection of stories, and an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow; Charles McGrath, the former editor of the New York Times Book Review and former deputy editor at the New Yorker; Rick Simonson, who has been a … NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward will deliver the keynote address for Tulane University's Commencement ceremonies next month. (Photo credit: Walter-Funk), John Darnielle is a singer, songwriter, and author from Durham, North Carolina. The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field". A former Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow, Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common and director of undergraduate creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a CINTAS Foundation Fellowship, among other awards, she is currently a writer/editor for Netflix and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lives in New York City. (Photo credit: Simmons University), Ibi Zoboi’s debut young adult novel, American Street, was a National Book Award Finalist and her debut middle grade novel, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, was a New York Times bestseller. (Photo credit: Eva Sikelianos Hunt), Rebecca Makkai latest novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, and the LA Times Book Prize; and it was one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2018. We were all very conscious of the fact that literary awards have long favored male authors. Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had. Winners from 1967 to 1983 are covered elsewhere. The longlists for the awards will be announced in September, with the shortlists coming the following month. The first National Book Awards were presented in May 1936 at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association, one month after The New York Times reported institution of the "new annual award". Since 2004, Aaron has been Quartermaster at Books & Books, Miami’s largest independent bookstore. The 2013 National Book Awards judges are: Fiction. He has published articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, and others, and has been featured on NPR, CBS, C-SPAN, and others. “The judging process for the National Book Awards is a serious undertaking,” said Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Our panel of five judges included three women. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 2017. The 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards. His work has appeared in publications such as The Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, and Mother Jones, and it has been widely anthologized, including five times in the Best American Essays series. He has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She is a translator of contemporary Telugu fiction and the editor of Kitchen Table Translation. In mid-September, the judges’ overall 50 longlist titles (10 per category) will be announced, with 25 finalists to follow on October 10. (Photo credit: Michael Lionstar), Laird Hunt is the author of seven novels, with an eighth, Zorrie, forthcoming from Bloomsbury USA in early 2021. 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