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    Here Are the National Book Award Winners!

    Jonny Diamond

    November 20, 2019, 9:41pm

    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!

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