where the dead sit talking by brandon hobson

Winners of National Book Awards receive a medal, a statue and a $10,000 cash prize (in the translated literature category, the author and translator split the money). The announcement was made by National Book Foundation Executive Director Lisa Lucas on AM2DM, the Buzzfeed morning show that streams live on Twitter.

Anderson and Eugene Yelchin’s “The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge,” Leslie Connor’s “The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle” and Christopher Paul Curtis’ “The Journey of Little Charlie.” The young people’s literature shortlist included a novel written in verse (Elizabeth Acevedo’s “The Poet X”) and a graphic memoir (Jarrett J. Rounding out the new prize’s list were Hanne Ørstavik’s ”Love” (Archipelago Books), Yoko Tawada’s “The Emissary” (New Directions Publishing) and Olga Tokarczuk’s “Flights” (Riverhead Books). Europa Editions landed two of its books on the list: Négar Djavadi’s “Disoriental” and Domenico Starnone’s “Trick,” the latter of which was translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri. This is the first year since 1983 that a National Book Award for Translated Literature will be awarded, and books published by independent presses dominated the new prize’s shortlist. Two of the country’s best known poets made the shortlist this year: Terrance Hayes for “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin” and Rae Armantrout for “Wobble.” Armantrout is a California native who teaches at UC San Diego Hayes is a MacArthur Fellow and a previous National Book Award winner.The other books on the poetry shortlist - all published by independent presses - were Diana Khoi Nguyen’s “Ghost Of” (Omnidawn Publishing), Justin Phillip Reed’s “Indecency” (Coffee House Press) and Jenny Xie’s “Eye Level” (Graywolf Press). Other finalists in the category are Los Angeles author Adam Winkler’s “We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights,” Sarah Smarsh’s “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth” and Victoria Johnson’s “American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic.” Stewart’s “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke.”

Calloway’s “The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation” and Jeffrey C. Two books from Oxford University Press made the nonfiction shortlist: Colin G.

Where the dead sit talking by brandon hobson