Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. Join the 2026 National Book Award honorees in Fiction read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing, reading, and recognition. Moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation.
Featured authors: Hannah Lillith Assadi‘s Paradiso 17: A Novel is a sprawling journey of exile and euphoria, as one man travels from Palestine, the land of his birth, to Kuwait, New York, and Arizona, each time grappling with what paradise truly means. Anishinaabe characters form the heart of Kimberly Blaeser’s Red Ants: Stories, a collection that both breaks Indigenous American stereotypes and blends genres between literary fiction, horror, humor, and even magical realism. In Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You: A Novel, Julián Delgado Lopera soars through Colombia’s underground queer scene, intergenerational suppression, grief, sequins, and self-loathing in effervescent prose. In The Renovation: A Novel by Kenan Orhan, a woman, once obsessed with redoing her second bathroom, finds it’s been renovated into a Turkish prison cell where she is the inmate. Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas chronicles a genderqueer autistic person’s journey in foster parenthood (and their obsession with a video game about dragon riders) in a genre-spanning work.
