Er zijn 5 finalists bij bij The National Book Award in de categorie ‘Translated Literature’ en daartoe behoort Anjet Daanje met The Remembered Soldier. Dat betekent dat ze samen met vertaler David McKay sowieso 1.000 dollar mag verdelen en als ze de Amerikaanse prijs wint dan kunnen ze zelfs 10.000 dollar verdelen. Op woensdag 19 november worden de winnaars bekendgemaakt en weten we of de vertaling van De herinnerde soldaat in de prijzen valt. De finalisten zijn:
2025 Finalists for Fiction:
* Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Grove Press / Grove Atlantic
* Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief, Knopf / Penguin Random House
* Karen Russell, The Antidote, Knopf / Penguin Random House
* Ethan Rutherford, North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, A Strange Object / Deep Vellum Publishing
* Bryan Washington, Palaver, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
2025 Finalists for Nonfiction:
* Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Knopf / Penguin Random House
* Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers
* Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
* Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care Abrams Press / Abrams
* Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World, Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
2025 Finalists for Poetry:
* Gabrielle Calvocoressi, The New Economy, Copper Canyon Press
* Cathy Linh Che, Becoming Ghost, Washington Square Press / Simon & Schuster
* Tiana Clark, Scorched Earth, Washington Square Press / Simon & Schuster
* Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things, Copper Canyon Press
* Patricia Smith, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, Scribner / Simon & Schuster
2025 Finalists for Translated Literature:
* Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) Translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell, New Directions Publishing
* Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers, New Directions Publishing
* Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, Translated from the Dutch by David McKay, New Vessel Press
* Hamid Ismailov, We Computers: A Ghazal Novel, Translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Yale University Press
* Neige Sinno, Sad Tiger, Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer, Seven Stories Press
2025 Finalists for Young People’s Literature:
* Kyle Lukoff, A World Worth Saving, Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House
* Amber McBride, The Leaving Room, Feiwel & Friends / Macmillan Publishers
* Daniel Nayeri, The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story Levine Querido
* Hannah V. Sawyerr, Truth Is, Amulet Books / Abrams
* Ibi Zoboi, (S)Kin, Versify / HarperCollins Publishers