Winners of the 2016 National Book Awards Are Announced!
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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