Percival Everett's , a daring reworking of , has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León's won for nonfiction, the reports. The prize for young people's literature was given Wednesday night to Shifa Saltagi Safadi's coming of age story , and the poetry award went to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's .
In the translation category, the winner was Yáng Shuang-zi's , translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King. Salman Rushdie's memoir about his near-fatal stabbing, and Percival Everett's revisionist historical novel, are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards. Others nominated include author-filmmaker Miranda July for her explicit novel on middle age, and the celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson for On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation announced finalists in fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature, poetry, and books in translation.
Winners will be announced during a Nov. 20 dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when honorary prizes will be presented to novelist Barbara Kingsolver and publisher-activist W. Paul Coates.
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