Literary Fiction Review

The finalists in the fiction category offered a mixture of veterans and new authors. The five nominees include Home, the third novel by Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for her 2004 novel “Gilead”; Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen, a founder of the Paris Review; and The Lazarus Project, by the Bosnian author Aleksandar Hemon. They are joined by Rachel Kushner’s debut novel Telex From Cuba and The End, the first novel by Salvatore Scibona.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Nov. 19 in New York.