Megha Majumdar's 'A Burning', 'Deacon King Kong' by James McBride among Carnegie literary medal nominees
Ayad Akhtar's novel 'Homeland Elegies' also joined the fiction longlist.
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Megha Majumdar, left, and James McBride
NEW YORK: James McBride's latest novel and nonfiction by poets Claudia Rankine and Natasha Trethewey are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for fiction and nonfiction.
Andrew Carnegie Medals for fiction and nonfiction longlist.
The non-fiction finalists are Trethewey's "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir," Rankine's "Just Us," which combines poetry, prose and photography, and Rebecca Giggs' "Fathoms: The World in the Whale."
Winners in each category will be receive $5,000, and will be announced February 4, 2021. The awards are supported, in part, by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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