NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Award.

On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation a nnounced five nominees in each of five competitive categories, narrowing long lists of 10 unveiled last month. Winners, each of whom receive $10,000, will be revealed during a Nov. 19 dinner gala in downtown Manhattan. Honorary awards will be presented to fiction writer George Saunders and author-publisher Roxane Gay.

Majumdar is a fiction finalist for “A Guardian and a Thief,” her first novel since her celebrated debut, “A Burning,” came out in 2020. Other fiction nominees include Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)”; Russell’s “T

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