Awards: NBA for Young People's Literature, Translated Literature

The longlists for the 2018 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature and Translated Literature consist of:

Young People's Literature
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (HarperTeen)
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin (Candlewick Press)
We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss (Greenwillow Books)
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor (Katherine Tegen Books)
The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic Press)
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix/Scholastic)
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (HarperTeen)
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (Dutton Children's Books)
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking Children's Books)
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Translated Literature
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover (Europa Editions)
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, translated by Heather Cleary (Coffee House Press)
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail, translated by Max Weiss & Dunya Mikhail (New Directions)
One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic)
Love by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken (Archipelago Books)
Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson (FSG)
Trick by Domenico Starnone, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri (Europa Editions)
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions)
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead)
Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Anya Migdal (Knopf)

The shortlists will be announced in October. Winners will be announced at the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 14 in New York City.

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