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Posted on November 14, 2018 at 5:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
There’s no shame in watching TV, as a bookworm, when you’re watching the National Book Awards ceremony!
Actor Nick Offerman, of Parks and Recreation fame, will host the event, which starts at 7:20 p.m. Eastern time.
Doron Weber and Isabel Allende will be honored for their lifetime achievements before the awards for young people’s literature, translated literature, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction are announced.
The National Book Foundation will stream the ceremony on its website and Facebook page starting at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time.
Here are the finalists for each category:
Fiction
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A Lucky Man, by Jamel Brinkley.
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Florida, by Lauren Groff.
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Where the Dead Sit Talking, by Brandon Hobson.
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The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai.
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The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez.
Poetry
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Wobble, by Rae Armantrout.
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes.
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Ghost Of, by Diana Khoi Nguyen.
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Indecency, by Justin Phillip Reed.
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Eye Level, by Jenny Xie.
Nonfiction
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation, by Colin G. Calloway.
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic, by Victoria Johnson.
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, by Sarah Smarsh.
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart.
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, by Adam Winkler.
Young people’s literature
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The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo.
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, by M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin.
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, by Leslie Connor.
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The Journey of Little Charlie, by Christopher Paul Curtis.
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Hey, Kiddo, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
Translated literature
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Disoriental, written by Négar Djavadi and translated by Tina Kover.
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Love, written by Hanne Ørstavik and translated by Martin Aitken.
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Trick, written by Domenico Starnone and translated by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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The Emissary, written by Yoko Tawada and translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
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Flights, written by Olga Tokarczuk and translated by Jennifer Croft.
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