The National Book Foundation revealed this year’s 5 Under 35 Honorees this morning on BuzzFeed.
The program is celebrating its tenth anniversary and for the first time, former honorees selected this year’s list. The winners will be honored at a ceremony on Nov. 16, 2015 at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, N.Y. The event will be hosted by LeVar Burton, curator in chief/host of Reading Rainbow. Each honoree will receive $1,000 in prize money and is invited to appear at a special event in Miami, Fla., in the spring of 2016.
We’ve got the complete list for you after the jump.
National Book Foundation’s 2015 5 Under 35 Honorees
- Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins (Black Cat / Grove Atlantic), selected by Paul Yoon
- Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), selected by ZZ Packer
- Megan Kruse, author of Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books), selected by Phil Klay
- Tracy O’Neill, author of The Hopeful (Ig Publishing), selected by Fiona Maazel
- Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Fra Keeler (Dorothy, a publishing project), selected by Dinaw Mengestu