The 2021 National Book Awards announced their winners this year, including "Hell of a Book" by Jason Mott. Here are all the winners and finalists.
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The 2021 National Book Award winners and shortlist finalists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature are listed below.
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The National Book Foundation announced its five 2021 finalists in each genre in early October (you'll find them below). On November 17, judges met to hash out the year's winners and announced the best books of the year in each category. Finalists earn $1,000 and winners receive $10,000.
The 2021 National Book Award winners:
Fiction: "Hell of a Book" by Jason Mott, available on Amazon and Bookshop
Nonfiction: "All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake" by Tiya Miles, available on Amazon and Bookshop
Poetry: "Floaters" by Martín Espada, available at Amazon and Bookshop
Young People's Literature: "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo, available on Amazon and Bookshop
Translated Works:"Winter in Sokcho" by Elisa Shua Dusapin and translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, available on Amazon and Bookshop
The competition was fierce and dynamic: One notable name on this year's longlist that was absent from the shortlist was Richard Powers, whose novel "Bewilderment" was a finalist in the running for the Booker Prize (announced November 3) and whose earlier work "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2019.
All the shortlisted finalists for the 2021 National Book Awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated works, and young people's literature:
Fiction
"Hell of a Book" by Jason Mott (2021 winner), available at Amazon and Bookshop from $16.20
"Cloud Cuckoo Land" by Anthony Doerr, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $18.57
"Matrix" by Lauren Groff, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $17.59
"Zorrie" by Laird Hunt, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $9.10
"The Prophets" by Robert Jones Jr., available at Amazon and Bookshop from $14.49
"All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake" by Tiya Miles (2021 winner), available at Amazon and Bookshop from $24.99
"A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance" by Hanif Abdurraqib, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $15.99
"Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains" by Lucas Bessire, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $19.69
"Tastes Like War: A Memoir" by Grace M. Cho, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $16.51
"Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America" by Nicole Eustace, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $16.75
"Winter in Sokcho" by Elisa Shua Dusapin and translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins (2021 winner), available at Amazon and Bookshop from $8.69
"Peach Blossom Paradise" by Ge Fei and translated from Chinese by Canaan Morse, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $16.51
"The Twilight Zone" by Nona Fernández and translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $13.99
"When We Cease to Understand the World" by Benjamín Labatut and translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $11.99
"Planet of Clay" by Samar Yazbek and translated from Arabic by Leri Price, available at Amazon and Bookshop from $15.63
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