06-10-2026 16:23 via nytimes.com

Here Are the Finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards

Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.
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