Daily News Item 2025-10-07 10:33

The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards. The finalists in poetry are Gabrielle Calvocoressi for The New Economy (Copper Canyon Press), Cathy Linh Che for Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press), Tiana Clark, for Scorched Earth (Washington Square Press), Richard Siken for I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press), and Patricia Smith for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner). The finalists in fiction are Rabih Alameddine for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Grove Press), Megha Majumdar for A Guardian and a Thief (Knopf), Karen Russell, for The Antidote (Knopf), Ethan Rutherford for North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther (A Strange Object), and Bryan Washington, Palaver (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The finalists in nonfiction, translated literature, and young people’s literature can be found on the National Book Foundation’s website. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 19.