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The National Book Awards
Presented annually in the USA, by the National Book Foundation, to recognize achievements in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people's literature.
For more information see: The National Book Foundation
2022 Winners
Seven Empty Houses
Samantha Schweblin | 2022 Translated Literature
Art Spiegelman
2022 | Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Past Winners
Floaters
Martín Espada | 2021 Poetry
Last Night at the Telegaph Club
Malinda Lo | 2021 Young People's Literature
Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua Dusapin | 2021 Translated Literature
Karen Tei Yamashita
2021 | Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Tamara Payne, Les Payne | 2020 Nonfiction
DMZ Colony
Don Mee Choi | 2020 Poetry
King and the Dragonflies
Kacen Callender | 2020 Young People's Literature
Sight Lines
Arthur Sze | 2019 Poetry
1919: The Year that Changed America
Martin W Sandler | 2019 Young People's Literature
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
László Krasznahorkai | 2019 Translated Literature
Edmund White
2019 | Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez | 2018 Fiction
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C Stewart | 2018 Nonfiction
Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed | 2018 Poetry
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo | 2018 Young People's Literature
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward | 2017 Fiction
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Masha Gessen | 2017 Nonfiction
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
Frank Bidart | 2017 Poetry
Far from the Tree
Robin Benway | 2017 Young People's Literature
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead | 2016 Fiction
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X Kendi | 2016 Nonfiction
The Performance of Becoming Human
Daniel Borzutzky | 2016 Poetry
March: Book Three
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell | 2016 Young People's Literature
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Robin Coste Lewis | 2015 Poetry
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman | 2015 Young People's Literature
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Louise Glück | 2014 Poetry
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson | 2014 Young People's Literature
The Good Lord Bird
James McBride | 2013 Fiction
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer | 2013 Nonfiction
Incarnadine
Mary Szybist | 2013 Poetry
The Thing About Luck
Cynthia Kadohata | 2013 Young People's Literature
The Round House
Louise Erdrich | 2012 Fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo | 2012 Nonfiction
Bewilderment
David Ferry | 2012 Poetry
Goblin Secrets
William Alexander | 2012 Young People's Literature
Head Off & Split
Nikky Finney | 2011 Poetry
Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai | 2011 Young People's Literature
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
Keith Waldrop | 2009 Poetry
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip M Hoose | 2009 Young People's Literature
Fire to Fire
Mark Doty | 2008 Poetry
What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell | 2008 Young People's Literature
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005
Robert Hass | 2007 Poetry
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie | 2007 Young People's Literature
Splay Anthem
Nathaniel Mackey | 2006 Poetry
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
M T Anderson | 2006 Young People's Literature
Door in the Mountain
Jean Valentine | 2004 Poetry
The Godless
Pete Hautman | 2004 Young People's Literature
The Singing
C K Williams | 2003 Poetry
The Canning Season
Polly Horvath | 2003 Young People's Literature
In the Next Galaxy
Ruth Stone | 2002 Poetry
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer | 2002 Young People's Literature
Poems Seven
Alan Dugan | 2001 Poetry
True Believer
Virginia Euwer Wolff | 2001 Young People's Literature
Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton | 2000 Poetry
Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan | 2000 Young People's Literature
