PRH Scoops 18 Nominations For 2024 National Book Award
Penguin Random House U.S. is the publisher behind 18 of the 50 titles longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award. In the Nonfiction category, six of the ten nominated books are from PRH US, and in Fiction, five of ten. So the publishing group has good chances of coming away an award at the NBA ceremony on November 20. The prize has been awarded since 1950 and is considered one of the most important book prizes in the U.S.
This year, eighteen authors published by Penguin Random House U.S. are in the running for a National Book Award (NBA), one of the most highly regarded book prizes in the U.S. and thus also in the entire English-speaking world. The prestigious award has been presented since 1950 and is now given in five categories, with ten nominations each for the longlist. It is administered by the non-profit National Book Foundation. Penguin Random House has particular reason to be hopeful in the important Nonfiction category. With six out of ten titles on the longest, Bertelsmann’s publishing division accounts for more than half of the nominated titles. In the premier category of Fiction, the U.S. publishing group scored five of the ten nominations. Penguin Random House U.S. once again managed to be represented in all five categories this year.
With 18 nominations, Penguin Random House has an excellent chance of winning the coveted prize, which is always a valuable publicity boost for the upcoming holiday season. The next step will be the announcement on October 1 of the NBA shortlist with 25 titles. The book world will find out who will receive the prestigious award at the live ceremony in New York on November 20. The authors who make the shortlist are already guaranteed prize money of 1,000 U.S. dollars; the winners receive 10,000 dollars and a bronze statue.
And here are the authors published by Penguin Random House who can hope for a NBA in 2024:
Fiction
- „Martyr!“ by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf/Random House Audio)
- „Catalina“ by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World/Random House Audio)
- „James“ by Percival Everett (Doubleday/Random House Audio)
- „All Fours“ by Miranda July (Riverhead Books/Penguin Audio)
- „My Friends“ by Hisham Matar (Random House/Random House Audio)
Nonfiction
- „There’s Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension“ by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House/Random House Audio)
- „Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are“ by Rebecca Boyle (Random House/Random House Audio)
- „Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder“ by Salman Rushdie (Random House/Random House Audio)
- „Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders“ by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Tiny Reparations Books/Penguin Audio)
- „Soldiers And Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling“ by Jason De León (Viking Books/Penguin Audio)
- „Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia“ by Kate Manne (Crown/Random House Audio)
Poetry
- „Spectral Evidence“ by Gregory Pardlo (Knopf/Random House Audio)
- „Mother“ by m.s. RedCherries (Penguin Books/Penguin Audio)
Translated Literature
- „Ædnan“ by Linnea Axelsson, translated by Saskia Vogel (Knopf/Random House Audio)
Young People’s Literature
- „Ariel Crashes A Train“ by Olivia A. Cole (Labyrinth Road/RHCB/Listening Library Audiobook)
- „Buffalo Dreamer“ by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen Books/Listening Library Audiobook)
- „Everything We Never Had“ by Randy Ribay (Kokila/Listening Library Audiobook)
- „Kareem Between“ by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers/Listening Library Audiobook)
