2018

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

The Emissary

Margaret Mitsutani, Yoko Tawada

New Directions Publishing More about this book >

FINALISTS

Disoriental

Négar Djavadi,
Tina Kover

Europa Editions More about this book >

Trick

Domenico Starnone,
Jhumpa Lahiri

Europa Editions More about this book >

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk,
Jennifer Croft

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Love

Hanne Ørstavik,
Martin Aitken

Archipelago Books More about this book >

LONGLIST

Comemadre

Roque Larraquy,
Heather Cleary

Coffee House Press More about this book >

The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

Dunya Mikhail,
Max D. Weiss

New Directions Publishing More about this book >

One Part Woman

Perumal Murugan,
Aniruddhan Vasudevan

Black Cat / Grove Atlantic More about this book >

Aetherial Worlds

Tatyana Tolstaya,
Anya Migdal

Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life

Gunnhild Øyehaug,
Kari Dickson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers More about this book >

Judges

Media

Watch the 2018 National Book Awards Ceremony

Author of The Friend Sigrid Nunez accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

Author of The New Negro Jeffrey C. Stewart accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Author of Indecency Justin Phillip Reed accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry

Monique Truong (on behalf of Yoko Tawada) and Margaret Mitsutani accept the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature

Author of The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

The Finalists Announced for the 2018 National Book Awards