Announcing the Winners of the 2018 National Book Awards
Congratulations to the 2018 National Book Awards Winners, who were named at tonight’s 69th 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.
Young People’s Literature
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers
Translated Literature
The Emissary
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
New Directions Publishing
Poetry
Indecency
by Justin Phillip Reed
Coffee House Press
Nonfiction
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Oxford University Press
Fiction
The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random
