The National Book Foundation announced the Longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction and Translated Literature.
There is a wonderfully diverse cast of authors on this year’s list, with titles that address issues such as gender and sexuality, racism and xenophobia, and self-esteem and self-acceptance.
Many of the contenders for the awards this year are Latinx. Finalists will be announced on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.
Young People’s Literature
Sonora Reyes for The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Anna-Marie McLemore for Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix.
Translated Literature
Mónica Ojeda for Jawbone
Samanta Schweblin for Seven Empty Houses
Nonfiction
Kelly Lytle Hernández for Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Ingrid Rojas Contreras for The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Fiction
Marytza K. Rubio for Maria, Maria & Other Stories
Alejandro Varela for The Town of Babylon
Poetry
Rio Cortez for Golden Ax
Congratulations to all of the authors nominated!
