Manne’s “Unshrinking” Longlisted for National Book Award

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne (Cornell) has been longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. One of the most prestigious book prizes in the United States, the National Book Award was established in 1950. It currently awards prizes in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. Here’s the prize committee’s description of Manne’s book: Blending lived experience with meticulous research, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobiaasserts that weight stigma and discrimination play a part in all aspects of society, including healthcare, education, and employment. Kate Manne argues that fatphobia harms not just individuals, but entire communities and cultures, and coins the term “body reflexivity”—a new politics that reexamines and deconstructs why bodies exist in the first place and seeks to build a world that is welcoming for people of all sizes. Ten books were longlisted for the prize. This list will be whittled down to five finalists next month, from which a winner will be selected. Finalists receive $1,000 each, plus a medal and citation, and the winner is awarded an additional $10,000. The current process of selecting a longlist of potential winners has been in place since 2013. In that time, Manne’s book is the only one by an academic philosopher to have made the longlist for the nonfiction prize. Before 2013, five finalists were named each year. No academic philosopher has been among the finalists for this prize this century. (I didn’t go back further than that to see if any academic philosophers had been among the finalists prior to 2000. If you want, you can look into that and report your findings; lists of previous years’ finalists and winners are here and here.) The prizes are awarded by the National Book Foundation and judged by a committee of “25 distinguished writers, translators, critics, librarians, and booksellers.”
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