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Coverage dated October 6, 2026

National Book Award finalists span continents and tackle identity, justice and war

Headline from WTOP Washington DC

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Edwidge Danticat, Valeria Luiselli and Karl Ove Knausgaard are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards, with many of the books taking on such contentious issues as gender identity, criminal justice and the Middle East.

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  1. NPR

    Here are the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards (opens NPR)

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    Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.

  2. WTOP Washington DC

    National Book Award finalists span continents and tackle identity, justice and war (opens WTOP Washington DC)

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    NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Edwidge Danticat, Valeria Luiselli and Karl Ove Knausgaard are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards, with many of the books taking on such contentious issues as gender identity, criminal justice and the Middle East.

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