Congratulations to Tom Lin and Hanif Abdurraqib, the 2022 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Lin won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for his novel, THE THOUSAND CRIMES OF MING TSU, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group. Abdurraqib won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for his book, A LITTLE DEVIL in America: In Praise of Black Performance, published by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House.

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.
 

2022 Winners

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

• THE THOUSAND CRIMES OF MING TSU by Tom Lin (Little, Brown and Company)
   

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• A LITTLE DEVIL in America: In Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
   

2022 Shortlist

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

• THE FIVE WOUNDS by Kirstin Valdez Quade (W. W. Norton & Company)
• MATRIX by Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books)
• THE THOUSAND CRIMES OF MING TSU by Tom Lin (Little, Brown and Company)

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• FOUR HUNDRED SOULS: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (One World)
• A LITTLE DEVIL in America: In Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
• SEEK YOU: A Journey Through American Loneliness, by Kristen Radtke (Pantheon)