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Award-Winning Authors on Why Books Matter

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“Books sustain us. Books inspire us. Books fortify us. Books help us become who we are,” says poet John Keene in this video featuring National Book Award–winning authors—including Tess Gunty, Megan McDowell, Imani Perry, Samanta Schweblin, and Sabaa Tahir—speaking about why they believe books matter for the National Book Foundation’s Read With NBF program.

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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
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National Book Foundation
National Book Award
Tess Gunty
John Keene
Megan McDowell
Imani Perry
Samanta Schweblin
Sabaa Tahir
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Samanta Schweblin

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Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin talks about living in Berlin and reads from her debut novel, Fever Dream (Riverhead Books, 2017), translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. Fever Dream, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, was the winner of the 2018 Tournament of Books beating out George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House, 2017) in the final round.

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Fiction
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Samanta Schweblin
Fever Dream
Riverhead Books
2017
Megan McDowell
Man Booker International Prize
Morning News
2018
Tournament of Books
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