NEW YORK (AP) — Jesmyn Ward’s slave narrative “Let Us Descend” and Jake Bittle’s exploration of local weather change’s influence “The Nice Displacement” are among the many finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence.
The medals are offered by the American Library Affiliation and given for fiction and nonfiction, with winners in every class receiving $5,000.
On Tuesday, the library affiliation introduced that Ward’s novel was a fiction nominee, together with Amanda Peters’ “The Berry Pickers” and the blended media “Denison Avenue,” by writer Christina Wong and illustrator Daniel Innes.
In nonfiction, the finalists are Bittle’s “The Nice Displacement,” Darrin Bell’s memoir “The Discuss” and Roxana Robinson’s investigation into the foster system, “We Had been As soon as a Household: A Story of Love, Demise, and Little one Elimination in America.”
Finalists might be introduced Jan. 20. The awards, made doable by a grant from Carnegie Company of New York, had been established in 2012. Earlier winners embrace James McBride, Jennifer Egan and Matthew Desmond.
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