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Winners of the 2016 National Book Awards Are Announced!

By: Nov. 18, 2016

The 67th annual National Book Awards hosted by Larry Wilmore was announced live on Facebook, Twitter, and at nationalbook.org.

Below are the winners in each category:

FICTION

WINNER:

*Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)

FINALISTS:

Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)

Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)

Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)

NONFICTION

WINNER:

*Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
(Nation Books)

FINALISTS:

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
(The New Press)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
(Harvard University Press)

Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
(Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)

POETRY

WINNER:

*Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)

FINALISTS:

Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 - 2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)

Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)

Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney's)

Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

WINNER:

*John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist), March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions / IDW Publishing)

FINALISTS:

Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)

Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)

Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House)

Watch highlights of the ceremony below!

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