Announcing the Winners of the 2023 National Book Awards
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, who were named at tonight’s 74th National Book Awards Ceremony!
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Fiction
Blackouts
by Justin Torres
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
Non-fiction
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of
by Ned Blackhawk U.S. History
Yale University Press
Poetry
from unincorporated territory [åmot]
by Craig Santos Perez
Omnidawn Publishing
Translated Literature
The Words That Remain
by Stênio Gardel, Translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
New Vessel Press
Young People’s Literature
A First Time for Everything
by Dan Santat
First Second / Macmillan Publishers
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