Announcing the Winners of the 2019 National Book Awards
Congratulations to the 2019 National Book Awards Winners, who were named at tonight’s 70th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner!
You can rewatch the ceremony in its entirety on Facebook, and for more information on the National Book Awards and the work of the National Book Foundation, visit our website, nationalbook.org.
Fiction
Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers
Young People’s Literature
1919 The Year That Changed America
by Martin W. Sandler
Bloomsbury Children’s Books / Bloomsbury Publishing
Translated Literature
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet
New Directions
Poetry
Sight Lines
by Arthur Sze
Copper Canyon Press
Nonfiction
The Yellow House
by Sarah M. Broom
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic
