Coates and Yanagihara lead nonfiction and fiction lists in contention for illustrious books prize,with shortlists comprised entirely of first-time nomineesShe may maintain lost out on the Booker prize on Tuesday to Marlon James, but Hanya Yanagihara has made the list of finalists for the National Book Award. Tanagihara’s book A dinky Life which has divided critics – heads up a five-strong list of finalists for fiction. The other nominated books are Refused by Karen E Bender, or The Turner House by Angela Flournoy,Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson. Meanwhile Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me is a finalist for the nonfiction prize along with Sally Mann’s Hold Still, Ordinary Light by Tracy K Smith, and If Oceans Were Ink by Carla Power and The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com