To an author whose debut collection of short stories published in 2018 represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.
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White Dancing Elephants, Chaya Bhuvaneswar (Dzanc Books)
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A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley (Graywolf Press)
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Some Trick, Helen DeWitt (New Directions)
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Basements and Other Museums, Vedran Husić (Black Lawrence Press)
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Bloodshot Stories, Jeff P. Jones (Sunshot Press)
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Half Gods, Akil Kumarasamy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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Her Adult Life, Jenn Scott (Acre Books)
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The Island Dwellers, Jen Silverman (Random House)
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories, Nafissa Thompson-Spires (37 INK, Atria)
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Bring Out the Dog, Will Mackin (Random House)
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To an exceptional book-length work of any genre by an author of color, published in the United States in 2018.
Cape Verdean Blues, Shauna Barbosa (University of Pittsburgh Press)
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Brother, David Chariandy (Bloomsbury Publishing)
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All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung (Catapult)
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How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays, Tyrese Coleman (Mason Jar Press)
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The Terrible, Yrsa Daley-Ward (Penguin Books)
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Washington Black, Esi Edugyan (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Teeth Never Sleep, Ángel García (University of Arkansas Press)
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Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Atria)
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Call Me Zebra, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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Eye Level, Jenny Xie (Graywolf Press)
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For a book-length translation of prose from any language into English published in 2018.
Nevada Days, Bernardo Atxaga (Graywolf Press)
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
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The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter, Matei Calinescu (NYRB)
Translated from the Romanian by Adriana Calinescu
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Disoriental, Négar Djavadi (Europa Editions)
Translated from the French by Tina Kover
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The Stone Building and Other Places, Aslı Erdoğan (City Lights)
Translated from the Turkish by Sevinç Türkkan
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Mourning, Eduardo Halfon (Bellevue Literary Press)
Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn
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Moon Brow, Shahriar Mandanipour (Restless Books)
Translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili
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Love, Hanne Ørstavik (Archipelago Books)
Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken
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CoDex 1962, Sjón (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
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Trick, Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions)
Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Aetherial Worlds, Tatyana Tolstaya (Alfred A. Knopf)
Translated from the Russian by Anya Migdal
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For a book-length translation of poetry from any language into English published in 2018.
The Shutters, Ahmed Bouanani (New Directions)
Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan
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Aperture, Jacek Dehnel (Zephyr Press)
Translated from the Polish by Karen Kovacik
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Revolution Goes Through Walls, Safaa Fathy (SplitLevel Texts)
Translated from the Arabic by Safaa Fathy and Pierre Joris
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Today, Juan Gelman (co•im•press)
Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford
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Autobiography of Death, Kim Hyesoon (New Directions)
Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi
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Negative Space, Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions)
Translated from the Albanian by Ani Gjika
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A Certain Plume, Henri Michaux (NYRB)
Translated from the French by Richard Sieburth
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Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, Adam Mickiewicz (Archipelago)
Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
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Stormwarning, Kristín Tómasdóttir (Phoneme Media)
Translated from the Icelandic by K.B. Thors
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Asymmetry, Adam Zagajewski (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
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For a book of essays published in 2018 that exemplifies the essay form.
We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, Jabari Asim (Picador)
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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Ladies Lazarus, Piper J. Daniels (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
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A Mouth is Always Muzzled, Natalie Hopkinson (The New Press)
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This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins (Harper Perennial)
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Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips (FSG Originals)
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Feel Free, Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
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Against Memoir, Michelle Tea (Feminist Press)
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MINE: Essays, Sarah Viren (University of New Mexico Press)
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The Souls of Yellow Folk, Wesley Yang (W. W. Norton)
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For a distinguished biography published in 2018.
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World, Andrea Barnet (Ecco)
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter (Henry Holt & Co.)
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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet, Julie Dobrow (W. W. Norton)
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Neruda: The Poet’s Calling, Mark Eisner (Ecco)
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Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown, Lauren Hilgers (Crown Publishing)
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We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar, Joan E. Howard (University of Missouri Press)
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Making Oscar Wilde, Michele Mendelssohn (Oxford University Press)
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Looking for Lorraine, Imani Perry (Beacon Press)
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Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, Joshua Rivkin (Melville House)
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, Julia Van Haaften (W. W. Norton)
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To honor a distinguished book of general nonfiction published in 2017 or 2018.
One Person, No Vote, Carol Anderson (Bloomsbury Publishing)
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American Prison, Shane Bauer (Penguin Press)
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The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
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Amity and Prosperity, Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement, Matthew Horace (Hachette Books)
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The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, Dunya Mikhail (New Directions Publishing)
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Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World, Snigdha Poonam (Harvard University Press)
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The Girl From Kathmandu, Cam Simpson (Harper)
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The Making of a Dream, Laura Wides-Muñoz (Harper)
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In a Day’s Work, Bernice Yeung (The New Press)
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For a book that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of the physical or biological sciences and communicates complex scientific concepts to a lay audience.
What is Real?, Adam Becker (Basic Books)
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The World in a Grain, Vince Beiser (Riverhead)
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Timefulness, Marcia Bjornerud (Princeton University Press)
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The Poison Squad, Deborah Blum (Penguin Press)
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The Beginning of Everything, Andrea Buchanan (Pegasus Books)
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Ben Goldfarb (Chelsea Green)
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, David Quammen (Simon & Schuster)
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Seaweed Chronicles, Susan Hand Shetterly (Algonquin Books)
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds, Lauren Slater (Little, Brown and Company)
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, Carl Zimmer (Dutton Books)
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To honor a nonfiction book on the subject of sports published in 2018.
The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer’s Next Superstars, Sebastian Abbot (W. W. Norton)
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West, John Branch (W. W. Norton)
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, Howard Bryant (Beacon Press)
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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, Jane Leavy (Harper)
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Godspeed, Casey Legler (Atria Books)
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Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, Mark Leibovich (Penguin Press)
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The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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Limits of the Known, David Roberts (W. W. Norton)
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Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL, Rob Ruck (The New Press)
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Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City, Albert Samaha (Public Affairs)
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