This combination of book cover images shows “The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, from left, “Harlem Shuffle” by Colson Whitehead and “Afterparties” by Anthony Veasna So, which are among this year’s nominees for National Book Critics Circle awards.
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle,” Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois” and a debut story collection by Anthony Veasna So, a promising writer who died before his book was published, are among this year’s nominees for National Book Critics Circle awards.
Other nominees range from Torrey Peters’ acclaimed first novel “Detransition, Baby” to Mark Harris’ biography of Mike Nichols to Rebecca Solnit’s “Orwell’s Roses,” in which she connects Orwell’s worldview to his joy in gardening and other domestic activities.
Winners will be announced March 17.
The NBCC announced five finalists in each of six competitive categories, and six nominees in a separate category for best first novel. The organization also awarded three honorary prizes: Author-critic Merve Emre was cited for excellence in reviewing, novelist Percival Everett for having “a transformative impact upon book culture” and Cave Canem, recipient of the NBCC’s inaugural Toni Morrison Award, for its “lasting and meaningful contributions to book culture.”
Cave Canem is a New York City based organization that helps develop and promote Black poets. It received an honorary National Book Award in 2016.
In fiction, NBCC nominees besides Whitehead and Jeffers were British author Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place,” Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus” and Sarah Hall’s “Burntcoat.”
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