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5 Under 35 Announced [1]

Fiction [2]
9.30.15

The National Book Foundation announced its annual 5 Under 35 honorees [3] this morning. Now in its tenth year, the program honors five young fiction writers, who were selected this year by previous 5 Under 35 honorees.

This year’s 5 Under 35 are:

Colin Barrett [4], author of Young Skins (Black Cat), selected by Paul Yoon [5]

Angela Flournoy [6], author of The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), selected by ZZ Packer [7]

Megan Kruse [8], author of Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books), selected by Phil Klay [9]

Tracy O’Neill [10], author of The Hopeful (Ig Publishing), selected by Fiona Maazel [11]

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi [12], author of Fra Keeler (Dorothy), selected by Dinaw Mengestu [13]

Since 2006, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 program has honored writers in the early stages of their careers, including Téa Obreht, Karen Russell, and Justin Torres. The honorees each receive a cash prize of $1,000, and will be celebrated at a ceremony in New York City on November 16, hosted by LaVar Burton.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/5_under_35_announced [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://www.nationalbook.org/ [4] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_barrett.html [5] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_barrett.html#yoon [6] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_flournoy.html [7] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_flournoy.html#packer [8] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_kruse.html [9] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_kruse.html#klay [10] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_oneill.html [11] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_oneill.html#maazel [12] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_vandervlietoloomi.html [13] http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_vandervlietoloomi.html#mengestu