NEW YORK (AP) — New fiction by Angela Flournoy and Susan Choi, a memoir of tragedy by Yiyun Li and a novel in translation by Nobel laureate Han Kang were among the nominees announced this week for the long lists of the National Book Awards.

The National Book Foundation announced 10 books in each of five categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people’s literature. The categories will be narrowed to five finalists on Oct. 7, and winners will be announced at a Nov. 19 dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when the foundation also will present honorary awards to author George Saunders and author-publisher Roxane Gay.

Choi’s “Flashlight” is her first novel since 2019, when she won the National Book Award for “Trust Exercise.” Flournoy’s “The Wilderness” came out a decade after

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