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The 66th National Book Awards: Winners Announced

By November 19, 2015Authors, Literature

If you saw our long list for the National Book Awards last week then you may be keen to hear the winners. The finalists have been counted and all the votes are cast, which means we have this year’s winners for you. The winners for each category of the 66th National Book Awards, from the ceremony are:

Fiction

Winner:

Adam Johnson – Fortune Smiles: Stories

US
UK

Finalists:

Karen E. Bender – Refund: Stories
Angela Flournoy – The Turner House
Lauren Groff – Fates and Furies
Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life

Non-Fiction

Winner:

Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me

US
UK

Finalists:

Sally Mann – Hold Still
Sy Montgomery – The Soul of an Octopus
Carla Power – If the Oceans were Ink
Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light

Poetry

Winner:

Robin Coste Lewis – Voyage of the Sable Venus

US
UK

Finalists:

Ross Gay – Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Terrance Hayes – How to be Drawn
Ada Limon – Bright Dead Things
Patrick Phillips – Elegy for a Broken Machine

Young People’s Literature:

Winner:

Neal Shusterman – Challenger Deep

US
UK

Finalists:

Ali Benjamin – The Thing About Jellyfish
Laura Ruby – Bone Gap
Steve Sheinkin – Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Noelle Stevenson – Nimona

Congratulations to all the winning authors, and those long listed and shortlisted too. If you’ve read any of the books in the list, please do considering submitting a review!

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