The 67th annual National Book Awards took place earlier this week hosted by Larry Wilmore, and the winners are now announced. The event took place at the end of a divisive election campaign and many of the authors involved used the opportunity to talk about diversity and togetherness.
While the mood is very much divisive across America right now, the National Book Award winners 2016 are a kickback to that, offering a list of diverse and fascinating literature to get stuck into. The National Book Awards longlist was long, the shortlist was long, but now we have the winners from each category and they are as follows.
Fiction
Winner
Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad US
The Underground Railroad UK
Finalists
Chris Bachelder – The Throwback Special
Paulette Jiles – News of the World
Karan Mahajan – The Association of Small Bombs
Jacqueline Woodson – Another Brooklyn
Nonfiction
Winner
Ibram X. Kendi – Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning US
Stamped from the Beginning UK
Finalists
Arlie Russell Hochschild – Strangers in their own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Viet Thanh Nguyen – Nothing Every Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Andres Resendez – The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Heather Ann Thompson – Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy
Poetry
Winner
Daniel Borzutzky – The Performance of Becoming Human
The Performance of Becoming Human US
The Performance of Becoming Human UK
Finalists
Rita Dove – Collected Poems 1974-2004
Peter Gizzi – Archeophonics
Jay Hopler – The Abridged History of Rainfall
Solmaz Sharif – Look
Young People’s Literature
Winner
John Lewis – March: Book Three
March: Book Three US
March: Book Three UK
Finalists
Katie DiCamillo – Raymie Nightingale
Grace Lin – When the Sea Turned to Silver
Jason Reynolds – Ghost
Nicola Yoon – The Sun is Also a Star
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