Here Are the National Book Award Winners!
The 2019 National Book Awards—aka the Oscars for books—have officially been awarded!
This year’s winners are as follows:
Young People’s Literature:
Martin W. Sandler for 1919, The Year That Changed America.
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Poetry:
Arthur Sze for Sight Lines.
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Translation:
Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Ottile Muzlet for Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.
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Nonfiction:
Sarah M. Broom for The Yellow House.
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Fiction:
Susan Choi for Trust Exercise.
Congratulations to all, and to all a good afterparty!
Jonny Diamond
Jonny Diamond is the Editor in Chief of Literary Hub. He lives in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains with his wife and two sons, and is currently writing a cultural history of the axe for W.W. Norton. @JonnyDiamond, JonnyDiamond.me
