2022

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

FINALISTS

Look at This Blue

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Coffee House Press More about this book >

Balladz

Sharon Olds

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

Best Barbarian

Roger Reeves

W. W. Norton & Company More about this book >

The Rupture Tense

Jenny Xie

Graywolf Press More about this book >

LONGLIST

Golden Ax

Rio Cortez

Penguin Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Still Life

Jay Hopler

McSweeney's Publishing More about this book >

Mummy Eaters

Sherry Shenoda

University of Nebraska Press More about this book >

Duende

Quincy Troupe

Seven Stories Press More about this book >

As She Appears

Shelley Wong

YesYes Books More about this book >

Judges
Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes
Chair
Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera
Keetje Kuipers
Keetje Kuipers
January Gill O’Neil
January Gill O’Neil
Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang
Media


73rd Annual National Book Awards - Full Ceremony

Padma Lakshmi's opening remarks at the 2022 National Book Awards Ceremony
Padma Lakshmi's opening remarks at the 2022 National Book Awards Ceremony

Tess Gunty accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for The Rabbit Hutch

Imani Perry accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America
Imani Perry accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America

John Keene accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry for Punks: New & Selected Poems
John Keene accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry for Punks: New & Selected Poems

Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell accept 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Seven Empty Houses
Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell accept 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Seven Empty Houses

Sabaa Tahir accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for All My Rage
Sabaa Tahir accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for All My Rage

Nat. Book Foundation’s Board Chair David Steinberger & Exec. Dir. Ruth Dickey at the 73rd NBAwards
National Book Foundation’s Board Chair David Steinberger and Executive Director Ruth Dickey at the 73rd National Book Awards

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