Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel, A Separation,was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. It was named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications, translated into sixteen languages, and is being adapted for film. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena, her two previous novels, Gone to the Forest and The Longshot,were both finalists for the Young Lions Fiction Award.
Idra Novey
Chair
Idra Novey
Idra Novey (Chair) is the award-winning author of the novels Those Who Knew and Ways to Disappear. Her translations include Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and Leaning Against This Late Hour, a forthcoming volume of poems by Garous Abdolmalekian, which she co-translated with Ahmad Nadalizadeh. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
Shuchi Saraswat
Shuchi Saraswat
Shuchi Saraswat is a writer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has worked in the publishing industry for the past twelve years in various capacities including in the editorial department at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, as a writing instructor at GrubStreet, and as an independent bookseller. In 2018 she launched the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, an author events series that focuses on migration, exile, and displacement with an emphasis on works in translation.
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Susan Choi accepts the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for Trust Exercise
Sarah M. Broom accepts the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Yellow House
Arthur Sze accepts the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry for Sight Lines
László Krasznahorkai accepts 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Edmund White receives the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Martin W. Sandler accepts the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Oren Teicher accepts the 2019 Literarian Award at the National Book Awards Ceremony
