And I hope I'm back here again to celebrate with you."Īt the NBA gala last night, the National Book Foundation presented its 2019 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Oren Teicher, who retired at the end of October as CEO of the American Booksellers Association, where he worked for more than 30 years. Sandler noted, "I'm particularly honored to have been in the company of my four fellow nominees, and I will say that as the elder statesman of them, I am so confident about the future of young people's literature. Young People's Literature: 1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. It is a tremendous joy that through our translations we, too, can be at home in the United States of America." Krasznahorkai said, in part, "Last but not least, I'd like to thank the National Book Awards for opening up this category once again. Translated Literature: Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions). It helps us slow down, see clearly, feel deeply and envision what truly matters." I believe poetry is an essential language. Sze said, in part, "We need poetry now more than ever. Poetry: Sight Lines by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press). She was always wolfing down words, insatiable, which is how I learned the ways in which words were a kind of sustenance, to be a beautiful relief or a greatest assault, how I learned that words were the best map." She remembered "how, as I child, I watched her every move, seeing her eyes fall upon every word anywhere, encountered in the grocery store, on a bus, pamphlets, the package labels, my high school textbooks. Broom thanked many people, including her mother, the poet Ivory Mae.
In an even more intense sense, I really find it an astonishing privilege that this is what I get to do for a living, and I get to do it with people like you." Choi said, in part, "The longer I do this-write books and also teach writing for a living-the more I'm struck by how it's really its own reward, given what we're all facing today and what many people are facing. The winners of the 2019 National Book Awards, presented last night in New York City, are:įiction: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (Holt).
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