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    Here are the winners of this year’s National Book Awards!

    Jonny Diamond

    November 16, 2022, 10:02pm

    In a brisk awards ceremony (that came in right on time) this year’s National Book Awards, hosted by Padma Lakshmi, have been bestowed upon the following!

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    FICTION: Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
    NONFICTION: Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    POETRY: John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems
    TRANSLATION: Samanta Schweblin (Megan McDowell, translator), Seven Empty Houses
    YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE: Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

    Congratulations to all!

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