Minn. publishers Graywolf and Coffee House have National Book Award finalists

Books published by Minnesota publishers Graywolf Press and Coffee House Press are finalists for this year's National Book Awards. Graywolf has finalists in both fiction and poetry; Coffee House in poetry.

Here is the short list:

Finalists for Fiction: Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky ManGraywolf Press Lauren Groff, FloridaRiverhead Books / Penguin Random House Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit TalkingSoho Press Rebecca Makkai, The Great BelieversViking Books / Penguin Random House Sigrid Nunez, The FriendRiverhead Books / Penguin Random House Finalists for Nonfiction: Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the NationOxford University Press Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early RepublicLiveright / W. W. Norton & Company Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on EarthScribner / Simon & Schuster Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain LockeOxford University Press Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil RightsLiveright / W. W. Norton & Company Finalists for Poetry: Rae Armantrout, WobbleWesleyan University Press Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinPenguin Books / Penguin Random House Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost OfOmnidawn Publishing Justin Phillip Reed, IndecencyCoffee House Press Jenny Xie, Eye LevelGraywolf Press Finalists for Translated Literature: Négar Djavadi, DisorientalTranslated by Tina KoverEuropa Editions Hanne Ørstavik, LoveTranslated by Martin AitkenArchipelago Books Domenico Starnone, TrickTranslated by Jhumpa LahiriEuropa Editions Yoko Tawada, The EmissaryTranslated by Margaret MitsutaniNew Directions Publishing Olga Tokarczuk, FlightsTranslated by Jennifer CroftRiverhead Books / Penguin Random House Finalists for Young People's Literature: Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet XHarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain SpurgeCandlewick Press Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason ButtleKatherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little CharlieScholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc. Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, KiddoGraphix / Scholastic, Inc. The winners will be announced Nov. 14.