The winners of the 2019 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature were announced at the 70th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 20th.

Two lifetime achievement awards were also presented at the ceremony: Edmund White was recognized with the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented by John Waters; and Oren J. Teicher received the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, presented by Ann Patchett.

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. More information about the National Book Awards can be found here.
 

2019 Winners

Fiction
TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi (Henry Holt and Co.)

Nonfiction
THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah M. Broom (Grove Press)

Poetry
SIGHT LINES by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)

Translated Literature
BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions)

Young People’s Literature
1919: The Year That Changed America, by Martin W. Sandler (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
 

2019 Shortlists

Fiction

• TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi (Henry Holt and Co.)
• SABRINA & CORINA: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (One World)
• BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF by Marlon James (Riverhead)
• THE OTHER AMERICANS by Laila Lalami (Pantheon)
• DISAPPEARING EARTH by Julia Phillips (Knopf)

Nonfiction

• THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah M. Broom (Grove Press)
• THICK: And Other Essays, by Tressie McMillan Cottom (The New Press)
• WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, by Carolyn Forché (Penguin Press)
• THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer (Riverhead Books)
• SOLITARY by Albert Woodfox, with Leslie George (Grove Press)

Poetry

• THE TRADITION by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)
• I: New and Selected Poems, by Toi Derricotte (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• DEAF REPUBLIC by Ilya Kaminsky (Graywolf Press)
• BE RECORDER by Carmen Giménez Smith (Graywolf Press)
• SIGHT LINES by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)

Translated Literature

• DEATH IS HARD WORK by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions)
• THE BAREFOOT WOMAN by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump (Archipelago Books)
• THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder (Pantheon)
• CROSSING by Pajtim Statovci, translated by David Hackston (Pantheon)

Young People’s Literature

• PET by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World)
• LOOK BOTH WAYS: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
• PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
• THIRTEEN DOORWAYS, WOLVES BEHIND THEM ALL by Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray)
• 1919: The Year That Changed America, by Martin W. Sandler (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
   

2019 Longlists

Fiction

• FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House)
• TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi (Henry Holt and Co.)
• SABRINA & CORINA: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (One World)
• BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF by Marlon James (Riverhead)
• THE OTHER AMERICANS by Laila Lalami (Pantheon)
• BLACK LIGHT: Stories, by Kimberly King Parsons (Vintage)
• THE NEED by Helen Phillips (Simon & Schuster)
• DISAPPEARING EARTH by Julia Phillips (Knopf)
• ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)
• THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)

Nonfiction

• GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, by Hanif Abdurraqib (University of Texas Press)
• THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah M. Broom (Grove Press)
• THICK: And Other Essays, by Tressie McMillan Cottom (The New Press)
• WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, by Carolyn Forché (Penguin Press)
• SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
• THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer (Riverhead Books)
• THE END OF THE MYTH: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)
• BURN THE PLACE: A Memoir, by Iliana Regan (Agate Midway)
• RACE FOR PROFIT: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (University of North Carolina Press)
• SOLITARY by Albert Woodfox, with Leslie George (Grove Press)

Poetry

• VARIATIONS ON DAWN AND DUSK by Dan Beachy-Quick (Omnidawn Publishing)
• THE TRADITION by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)
• I: New and Selected Poems, by Toi Derricotte (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• BUILD YOURSELF A BOAT by Camonghne Felix (Haymarket Books)
• DEAF REPUBLIC by Ilya Kaminsky (Graywolf Press)
• A SAND BOOK by Ariana Reines (Tin House Books)
• DUNCE by Mary Ruefle (Wave Books)
• BE RECORDER by Carmen Giménez Smith (Graywolf Press)
• SIGHT LINES by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)
• DOOMSTEAD DAYS by Brian Teare (Nightboat Books)

Translated Literature

• WHEN DEATH TAKES SOMETHING FROM YOU GIVE IT BACK: Carl’s Book, by Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Denise Newman (Coffee House Press)
• THE COLLECTOR OF LEFTOVER SOULS: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections, by Eliane Brum, translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty (Graywolf Press)
• SPACE INVADERS by Nona Fernández, translated by Natasha Wimmer (Graywolf Press)
• WILL AND TESTAMENT by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund (Verso Fiction)
• DEATH IS HARD WORK by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions)
• THE BAREFOOT WOMAN by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump (Archipelago Books)
• THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder (Pantheon)
• CROSSING by Pajtim Statovci, translated by David Hackston (Pantheon)
• DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Riverhead Books)

Young People’s Literature

• THE UNDEFEATED by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson (Versify)
• SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking Books for Young Readers)
• PET by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World)
• A PLACE TO BELONG by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
• LOOK BOTH WAYS: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
• PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
• THIRTEEN DOORWAYS, WOLVES BEHIND THEM ALL by Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray)
• 1919: The Year That Changed America, by Martin W. Sandler (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
• OUT OF SALEM by Hal Schrieve (Triangle Square)
• KISS NUMBER 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw (First Second Books)