{"id":128513,"date":"2024-11-21T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128513"},"modified":"2024-11-21T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:18:10","slug":"percival-everett-wins-national-book-award-for-fiction-with-retelling-of-huckleberry-finn-national-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128513","title":{"rendered":"Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn | National Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US\u2019s most prestigious literary prizes, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/apr\/08\/james-by-percival-everett-review-a-gripping-reimagining-of-mark-twain-jim-huckleberry-finn\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">James<\/a>, his acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/feb\/24\/100-best-novels-huckleberry-finn-twain\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The 67-year-old author was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/nov\/11\/percival-everett-and-samantha-harvey-favourites-to-win-2024-booker-prize\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">shortlisted for this year\u2019s Booker prize<\/a> for James, which focuses on Huckleberry Finn\u2019s enslaved character Jim. The Guardian\u2019s Anthony Cummins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/apr\/08\/james-by-percival-everett-review-a-gripping-reimagining-of-mark-twain-jim-huckleberry-finn\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">called the book<\/a> \u201cgripping, painful, funny, horrifying\u201d in his review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Everett, whose previous novel Erasure was adapted into the Oscar-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/sep\/10\/american-fiction-review-cord-jefferson-jeffrey-wright\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">2023 comedy American Fiction<\/a>, saw off competition from Miranda July\u2019s All Fours, Kaveh Akbar\u2019s debut novel Martyr!, Pemi Aguda\u2019s short story collection Ghostroots and Hisham Matar\u2019s My Friends in his category.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"182d0bab-e899-4945-9c4f-bf4946d10532\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:3,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;\u2018I\u2019d love a scathing review\u2019: novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;182d0bab-e899-4945-9c4f-bf4946d10532&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/apr\/06\/id-love-a-scathing-review-novelist-percival-everett-on-american-fiction-and-rewriting-huckleberry-finn&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:3}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cTwo weeks ago, I was feeling pretty low,\u201d Everett told the audience at the NBA ceremony in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">New York<\/a> on Wednesday night, alluding to the US election result. \u201cAnd to tell the truth, I still feel pretty low. And as I look out at this, so much excitement about books, I have to say I do feel some hope, but it\u2019s important to remember that hope really is no substitute for strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">In other categories, MacArthur fellow Jason De Le\u00f3n won the $10,000 nonfiction category for his book Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling. De Le\u00f3n was up against Salman Rushdie, who was nominated for his first National Book Award for his bestselling memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/nov\/16\/national-book-awards-winners-finalists-israel-hamas-ceasefire\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">A year after sponsors withdrew from the NBAs <\/a>when the finalists banded together to issue a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, many of this year\u2019s winners used their speeches to call for peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"af09606a-0383-47b3-aca3-9f021c45365e\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1fujct4\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Shifa Saltagi Safadi won the $10,000 young people\u2019s literature category for her novel Kareem Between.<\/span> Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Palestinian American poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who won the $10,000 poetry category for her collection Something About Living, said, \u201cWe are now living in the second November of the American-funded genocide in Palestine. I hope that every one of us can love ourselves enough to stand up and to make it stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">She spoke of her father, who was born in Palestine in 1938. \u201cHe sat me down at age five and told me the story of the homeland he couldn\u2019t live in any more, and that story has carried me through my entire life, has driven me, has motivated me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Shifa Saltagi Safadi won the $10,000 young people\u2019s literature category for her novel Kareem Between, about a Syrian American boy whose mother is trapped in Syria by Donald Trump\u2019s travel ban, which was imposed on countries with mostly Muslim populations in 2017 and lifted by Joe Biden in 2021. Before he was re-elected, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7022828\/trump-travel-ban-refugees-gaza\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">said he would bring the ban back, and ban refugees from Gaza.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cIt\u2019s not historical fiction any more \u2026 our work did not stop in 2020. Dehumanising of Arabs, and Islamophobia, has been rising more than ever in this past year to justify a genocide of the Palestinian people,\u201d Safadi told the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The $10,000 translated literature prize was won by Taiwan Travelogue author Y\u00e1ng Shu\u0101ng-z\u01d0 and translator Lin King, who translated the book from Mandarin Chinese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Publisher W Paul Coates, the father of famed author Ta-Nehisi Coates, won the literarian award, a lifetime achievement prize for outstanding service to the literary community. Coates founded the Black Classic Press in 1978 in Baltimore, originally working from the basement of his house. Black Classic Press is now one of the oldest independently owned Black publishers in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Author Barbara Kingsolver won the distinguished contribution to American letters award, which has previously been won by Toni Morrison and Isabel Allende. The author of nine novels, including The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna and Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver has written works spanning nonfiction, poetry, journalism and science writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">There were a total of 1,917 books submitted for the NBAs this year.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\n<li class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">James by Percival Everett (Pan Macmillan, \u00a320). To support the Guardian and Observer, order your copy at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardianbookshop.com\/james-9781035031238?utm_source=editoriallink&amp;utm_medium=merch&amp;utm_campaign=article\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">guardianbookshop.com<\/a>. Delivery charges may apply.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/nov\/21\/percival-everett-wins-national-book-award-james-huckleberry-finn-retelling\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US\u2019s most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain\u2019s The Adventures of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128513\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}