{"id":402324,"date":"2023-11-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402324"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Justin-Torres-Ned-Blackhawk-among-National-Book-Awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Justin-Torres-Ned-Blackhawk-among-National-Book-Awards-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Torres, Ned Blackhawk among National Book Awards winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Justin Torres\u2019 novel \u201cBlackouts,\u201d a daring and illustrated narrative that blends history and imagination in its recounting of a censored study of gay sexuality, has won the National Book Award for fiction.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, the nonfiction prize was awarded to Ned Blackhawk\u2019s \u201cThe Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History\u201d and young people\u2019s literature was won by Dan Santat\u2019s \u201cA First Time for Everything.\u201d Craig Santos Perez\u2019s \u201cfrom incorporated territory (\u00e5mot),\u201d the fifth work in his series about his native Guam, was cited for best poetry, and St\u00eanio Gardel\u2019s \u201cThe Words That Remain,\u201d translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, won for literature in translation.<\/p>\n<p>Torres, whose book imagines a conversation between a dying man and the young friend he educates about a real history called \u201cSex Variants,\u201d gave a brief acceptance speech before he was joined by more than a dozen nominees who gathered to present a statement about the Israel-Hamas war. Read by fiction nominee Aaliyah Bilal, the statement condemned the \u201congoing bombardment of Gaza,\u201d antisemitism, anti-Palestinian sentiments and Islamophobia and called for a humanitarian cease-fire. The authors received a standing ovation after Bilal finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP)\u2014Justin Torres\u2019 novel \u201cBlackouts,\u201d a daring and illustrated narrative that blends history and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}