NEW YORK ā Charles Yu's āInterior Chinatown,ā a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction.
Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne's Malcolm X biography, āThe Dead Are Arising,ā was cited for nonfiction and Kacen Callender's āKing and the Dragonfliesā for young people's literature.
The traditional dinner ceremony is the nonprofit National Book Foundation's most important source of income and is usually held at Cipriani Wall Street, where publishers and other officials pay thousands of dollars for tables or individual seats.
The scholar Manning Marable died right before the 2011 publication of āMalcolm X,ā which went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and receive a National Book Award nomination.
This is a story you should try to tell.āWinners in each of the competitive categories receive $10,000, and other finalists $1,000, with the money divided equally between the author and translator for best translated book.