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2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals Shortlist Announced

[via Booklist]

The shortlist for the tenth annual Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction has been announced. The two medal winners will be announced at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards (BMAs) ceremony, which will take place online on Thursday, February 4, 2021, from 3 to 4 p.m.

Fiction

A Burning, by Megha Majumdar

Deacon King Kong, by James McBride

Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar

Nonfiction

Fathoms: The World in the Whale, by Rebecca Giggs

Just Us: An American Conversation, by Claudia Rankine

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, by Natasha Trethewey

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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ debut novel among Carnegie Medal finalists

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, “The Water Dancer,” is among the nominees for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.

Coates’ narrative of an enslaved person’s journey to freedom is a fiction finalist, along with Valeria Luiselli’s “Lost Children Archive” and Myla Goldberg’s “Feast Your Eyes.” The nonfiction nominees are Maria Popova’s “Figuring,” David Treuer’s ���The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present” and Adam Higginbotham’s “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster.”

The finalists were announced Monday by the American Library Association, which presents the awards. Winners in each category receive $5,000, made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

The winners will be announced Jan. 26.

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The 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were announced at the RUSA Book and Media Awards event at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Seattle on Sunday, January 27, 2019. The winners will each receive $5,000. All the finalists will be honored during a celebratory event, sponsored by NoveList, at ALA’s 2019 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

The 2019 winners are:

Fiction: The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

Nonfiction: Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon

Soon, these books will appear alongside all of the previous Carnegie Medalists on NoveList’s Awards page.

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"The Underground Railroad," "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," receive 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

ATLANTA, Jan. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Library Association selects "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday, Penguin Random House LLC, as the winner of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and "Evicted: Poverty...

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"The Underground Railroad," "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," receive 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

“The Underground Railroad,” “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” receive 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

ATLANTA, Jan. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Library Association selects “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday, Penguin Random House LLC, as the winner of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” by Matthew Desmond, published by Crown, Penguin Random House LLC, as the winner…

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– Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

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Deacon King Kong’ and ‘Fathoms’ Win Carnegie Medals

[via Library Journal]

Deacon King Kong by James McBride has won ALA's 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs  has won the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Carnegie Medal winners will each receive $5,000. The six finalists and two winners will be honored during a celebratory event in the summer of 2021 during ALA's annual conference.

Other titles on the shortlist for Fiction were A Burning by Megha Majumdar and Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar.

Other titles on the shortlist for Nonfiction were Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine and Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir Natasha Trethewey.

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