NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie’s “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his candid and surprisingly resilient memoir about a brutal stabbing he suffered in 2022, is nominated for a National Book Award. Canada’s Anne Carson, one of the world’s most revered poets, was shortlisted for her latest collection, “Wrong Norma.”
The National Book Foundation, which awards the prize, released the 10-book longlists for nonfiction and poetry on Thursday. The foundation announced the shortlists for young people’s literature and translated books earlier in the week and will announce the nominees for fiction on Friday. Judges will narrow the lists to five in each category on Oct. 1 and the winners will be announced during a Manhattan dinner ceremony on Nov. 20.
Rushdie, 77, has been a literary star since the publication of “Midnight’s Children” in 1981 and became unaccountably famous after the publication of “The Satanic Verses” in 1988 and the death decree issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for the novel’s alleged blasphemy. But “Knife” earned him his first National Book Award nomination; he was a British citizen living in London for “Midnight’s Children” and other works and would have been ineligible for the NBA. Rushdie has been a U.S. citizen since 2016.
In addition to “Knife,” the nonfiction slate covers faith, identity, oppression, global resources and explorations of outer space, including Hanif Abdurraqib’s “It’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Climbing,” Rebecca Boyle’s “Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are” and Jason De Leon’s “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in a World of Human Trafficking.”
The other nonfiction nominated books were: Eliza Griswold’s “Circles of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church”, Kate Mann’s “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia”, Ernest Schieder’s “The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives”, Richard Slotkin’s “A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America”, Deborah Jackson Tafa’s “Whiskey Tender” and Vanessa Angelica Villarreal’s “Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders.”
Along with Carson’s “Wrong Norma,” the poetry nominees include Pulitzer Prize winner Diane Seuss’s latest, “Modern Poetry”; Fady Jouda’s elliptically titled ” ; Dorianne Laux’s “Life on Earth”; Gregory Pardlo’s “Spectral Evidence”; and Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ “Silver.”
Other poems on the poetry list were Octavio Quintanilla’s “The Book of Wounded Sparrows,” Ms. Redcherries’ “Mother,” Lina Khalaf Tuffaha’s “Something About Living” and Elizabeth Willis’ “Liontaming in America.”
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