The National Book Awards, one of the major American literary awards, announced the shortlists for the 2026 edition on September 15 to 17. In each of the five categories—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translated literature, and literature for young people—a first list of 10 works is established. Five finalists per category will then be announced on October 6, before the winners are announced on November 18 in New York. The 2026 selection in translated literature includes the Franco-Palestinian writer Karim Kattan with Eden at Dawn, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. The novel, originally published in French as L'Éden à l'aube by Elyzad in 2024, tells the story of the meeting and love story of Gabriel and Isaac in a Palestine traversed by sand, borders and checkpoints. The book was selected in the second shortlist of the 2024 Renaudot Prize and has since accumulated awards, including the Valery-Larbaud, JesusParadis and Hors Concours prizes, as well as the Métis Best Novel Prize. The Senegalese novelist Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, 2021 Goncourt Prize winner for La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, appears on the list with Pure Men, translated by Lara Vergnaud. The novel, originally published in French as De purs hommes by Philippe Rey and Jimsaan in 2018, starts with a video showing the exhumation of the body of a man presented as homosexual in Senegal, and follows a literature professor who tries to understand what happened. Other titles from this selection are already available in French: Maria Stepanova is competing with The Disappearing Act, translated into English by Sasha Dugdale. The novel was published in France in February 2026 by Stock under the title L'Art de disparaître, in a Russian translation by Anne Coldefy-Faucard. The Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora is also available in French since January 2026 under the title Mitteleuropa. The Secret Notebooks of Redo, published by Maurice Nadeau, in a translation by François-Michel Durazzo. Also already translated into French are Karl Ove Knausgaard, Samar Yazbek, Álvaro Enrigue, Fady Joudah, Sara Nović, or still Chanel Miller. The 2026 selection in translated literature includes the following titles: Egana Djabbarova, My Dreadful Body, translated from Russian by Lisa C. Hayden (New Vessel Press); Álvaro Enrigue, Now I Surrender, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead); Karim Kattan, Eden at Dawn - L'Éden à l'aube in French -, translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Restless Books); Karl Ove Knausgaard, The School of Night, translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken (Penguin Press); Ping Lu, To the East of the East, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang (World Editions); Vicente Luis Mora, Centroeuropa, translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery (Bellevue Literary Press); Intan Paramaditha, Night of a Thousand Hells, translated from Indonesian by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao (Europa Editions); Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Pure Men - De purs hommes in French -, translated from French by Lara Vergnaud (Other Press); Maria Stepanova, The Disappearing Act - L'Art de disparaître in French -, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (New Directions); Samar Yazbek, Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza, translated from Arabic by Leri Price (Other Press). The 2026 selection in non-fiction includes titles by Rozina Ali, Colin Asher, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Abdelrahman ElGendy, Camonghne Felix, Wil Haygood, Sara Nović, Joseph Osmundson, Angela Pelster, and Wendy S. Walters. The 2026 selection in poetry includes works by Victoria Chang, Carolina Ebeid, Brenda Hillman, Richie Hofmann, Fady Joudah, Layli Long Soldier, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Jake Rose, Jake Skeets, and Susan Stewart. The 2026 selection in young people's literature includes titles by Delali Adjoa, Elana K. Arnold, T.A. Chan, Tae Keller, Keala Kendall, David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels, Chanel Miller, Eric Darnell Pritchard, and Julian Randall. Last year, the National Book Award for fiction was awarded to Rabih Alameddine for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). The novel is now available in French under the title L'Histoire, la vraie, de Raja le candide (et de sa mère), published by Escales, in a translation by Élisabeth Peellaert. In non-fiction, Omar El Akkad was awarded for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The book was published in January 2026 by Mémoire d'encrier under the title Un jour, tout le monde aura toujours été contre ça, in a translation by Marie Frankland. The poetry prize went to Patricia Smith for The Intentions of Thunder, while Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Robin Myers won the translated literature prize for We Are Green and Trembling. The text by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is available in French by Grasset under the title Les Griffes de la forêt, translated by Guillaume Contré. Finally, Daniel Nayeri was distinguished in young people's literature for The Teacher of Nomad Land. To date, no French translations of the titles by Patricia Smith and Daniel Nayeri seem to have been announced.