National Book Award finalists tackle identity, justice and war
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October 8, 2026

National Book Award finalists tackle identity, justice and war

By By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer 

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Edwidge Danticat, Valeria Luiselli and Karl Ove Knausgaard are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards, with many of the books taking on such contentious issues as gender identity, criminal justice and the Middle East.

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