The National Book Foundation announced five contenders each for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature on October 6. The winners will be announced on November 18 at an online ceremony. Two lifetime achievement awards will also be presented at that event: The novelist Walter Mosley will receive the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and Carolyn Reidy, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster who died in May at 71, will posthumously receive the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.