The winners in each of the five categories—Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced November 20, 2019, at the 70th National Book Awards Ceremony. Edmund White will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Acclaimed actor, producer, and television veteran LeVar Burton will host the ceremony.
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Young People’s Literature
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Make Me a World / Penguin Random House Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay Kokila / Penguin Random House Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby 1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler Bloomsbury Children’s Books / Bloomsbury Publishing
Translated Literature
The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga Translated from the French by Jordan Stump Archipelago Books The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Crossing by Pajtim Statovci Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House
Poetry
The Tradition by Jericho Brown Copper Canyon Press I: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte University of Pittsburgh Press Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky Graywolf Press Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith Graywolf Press Sight Lines by Arthur Sze Copper Canyon Press
Nonfiction
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom The New Press What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché Penguin Press / Penguin Random House The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Fiction
Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine One World / Penguin Random House Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House The Other Americans by Laila Lalami Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House Curious about the other nominated titles? Looking for more great recommendations? Check out the 2019 National Book Awards Longlists.
