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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2018

Awards

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2018

Congratulations to Jennifer Egan and Sherman Alexie, the 2018 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Egan won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for her novel, MANHATTAN BEACH, published by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Alexie won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for his memoir, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME, 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. Click here for more information.

 


 

2018 Winners

 

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

  • MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
     

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

  • YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME: A Memoir, by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown)

 


 

2018 Shortlist

 

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

  • MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
  • LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders (Random House)
  • SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
     

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

  • YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME: A Memoir, by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown)
  • THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Ellsberg (Bloomsbury)
  • KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Doubleday)