nytimes September 17, 2021 3:00pm National Book Awards Announces Its 2021 Nominees #booksandliterature #writingandwriters #nationalbookawards #news National Book Awards Announces Its 2021 Nominees This year’s fiction longlist includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, a 2020 nominee in the poetry category, as well as Richard Powers, who also made the Booker Prize shortlist this week.