Percival Everett was announced the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction on Wednesday night for his novel James. The moving novel is a reimagining of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the escaped enslaved boy that Huck befriends.
Other major honorees inlcuded poetry award-winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, whose collection Something About Living explores Palestinian history and the Palestinian diaspora, and non-fiction winner Jason De León for his book Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, an anthropological investigation of the people who bring migrants over the U.S.-Mexico border.
James: A Novel
2024 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction
‘Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Jessica Anthony, The Most
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina
Miranda July, All Fours
Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
Hisham Matar, My Friends
Sam Sax, Yr Dead
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
