2019 NBAwards Winners: Sarah M. Broom, Susan Choi, László Krasznahorkai, Arthur Sze, and Martin W. Sandler. Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Oren Teicher and Ann Patchett. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Oren Teicher. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
John Waters. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
John Waters and Edmund White. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Edmund White. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
David Steinberger and Lisa Lucas. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
An Na. Photo credit: Nathalie Schueller
Martin W. Sandler. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Ottilie Mulzet. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
László Krasznahorkai. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, and LeVar Burton. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Arthur Sze and Mark Wunderlich. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Arthur Sze. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Sarah M. Broom. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Susan Choi. Photo credit: Nathalie Schueller
Susan Choi. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Martin W. Sandler. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
LeVar Burton. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Oren Teicher and Ann Patchett. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Sarah M. Broom. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Arthur Sze. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
László Krasznahorkai. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Watch the 70th National Book Awards, hosted by LeVar Burton were streamed live from New York City on November 20, 2019. It’s the biggest night in books, featuring the presentation of lifetime achievement awards to Edmund White and Oren Teicher, followed by the announcement of the Winners of National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. You can watch the full ceremony below and on our Facebook page.
2019 Winners
Fiction Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers
Nonfiction The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Grove Press / Grove Atlantic
Poetry Sight Lines by Arthur Sze Copper Canyon Press
Translated Literature Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet New Directions
