Congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen and Sally Mann, the 2016 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for his novel THE SYMPATHIZER, published by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. Sally Mann won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for her book, HOLD STILL: A Memoir with Photographs, published by Little, Brown, and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year. The winners (one for fiction, one for nonfiction) are announced at an event at the ALA Annual Conference; winning authors receive a $5,000 cash award, and two finalists in each category receive $1,500.

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2016 Winners

 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 

• THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
   

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• HOLD STILL by Sally Mann (Little, Brown, and Company)

2016 Shortlist

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

• THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
• THE BOOK OF ARON by Jim Shepard (Knopf)
• A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday)
   

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
• HOLD STILL by Sally Mann (Little, Brown, and Company)
• THE INVENTION OF NATURE: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf (Knopf)