2022

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

Seven Empty Houses

Megan McDowell, Samanta Schweblin

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

FINALISTS

A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Jon Fosse,
Damion Searls

Transit Books More about this book >

Kibogo

Scholastique Mukasonga,
Mark Polizzotti

Archipelago Books More about this book >

Jawbone

Mónica Ojeda,
Sarah Booker

Coffee House Press More about this book >

Scattered All Over the Earth

Yoko Tawada,
Margaret Mitsutani

New Directions Publishing More about this book >

LONGLIST

Ibn Arabi's Small Death

Mohammed Hasan Alwan,
William M. Hutchins

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin More about this book >

Seasons of Purgatory

Shahriar Mandanipour,
Sara Khalili

Bellevue Literary Press More about this book >

The Employees

Olga Ravn,
Martin Aitken

New Directions Publishing More about this book >

Where You Come From

Saša Stanišić,
Damion Searls

Tin House Books More about this book >

The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk,
Jennifer Croft 

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Judges
Nick Buzanski
Nick Buzanski
Veronica Esposito
Veronica Esposito
Ann Goldstein
Ann Goldstein
Chair
Rohan Kamicheril
Rohan Kamicheril
Russell Scott Valentino
Russell Scott Valentino
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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