October 6th, 2024

Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards

By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on September 13, 2024.

FILE - Percival Everett appears at the 38th American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France on Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

NEW YORK (AP) – Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards. The long list of 10 also includes Rachel Kushner’s innovative thriller, “Creation Lake,” and novelist-filmmaker Miranda July’s exploration of middle age, “All Fours.”

The National Book Foundation released the fiction list Friday, capping a week of announcements in five competitive categories – fiction, nonfiction, poetry,young people’s literature, and books in translation. Judges will narrow the lists to five on Oct. 1, and winners will be announced Nov. 20 during a dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when honorary prizes will be presented to novelist Barbara Kingsolver and publisher-activist Paul Coates.

Two story collections are on the fiction list, Pemi Aguda’s “Ghostroots” and Tony Tulathimutte’s “Rejection,” and three debut novels, Kaveh Akbar’s “Martyr!,” Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s “Catalina” and Sam Sax’s “Yr Dead,” which takes place in part outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan. The other fiction nominees are Jessica Anthony’s “The Most” and Hisham Matar’s “My Friends.”

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