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: 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 Dèy: A Novel, Edwidge Danticat confronts grief and family ties through the lens of a mother processing surviving a shopping mall shooting in Miami. 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