PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two Oregon authors could bring National Book Awards home this year.

The National Book Foundation unveiled 25 finalists for the annual awards program earlier this week. Oregon writers Omar El Akkad and Karen Russell are both vying for trophies in different categories.

Released in February, El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” is up for the nonfiction award. The book “centers his attention on American and European complicity in the destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian people, arguing that mass apathy towards immense suffering is leading to innumerable fractures across Western societies,” according to NBF.

El Akkad previously earned praise for his fiction novels “American War” and “What Strange Paradise,” but his newly-nominated book

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