The winners of the 2022 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 16th at the 73rd National Book Awards Ceremony. Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. Tracie D. Hall, the Executive Director of the American Library Association, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And Art Spiegelman, who is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, MAUS, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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.
 

2022 Winners

Fiction

• THE RABBIT HUTCH by Tessa Gunty (Knopf)

Nonfiction

• SOUTH TO AMERICA: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, by Imani Perry (Ecco)

Poetry

• PUNKS: New & Selected Poems, by John Keene (The Song Cave)

Translated Literature

• SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES by Samanta Schweblin and translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Riverhead)

Young People’s Literature

• ALL MY RAGE by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)
   

2022 Shortlists

Fiction

• THE RABBIT HUTCH by Tessa Gunty (Knopf)
• THE BIRDCATCHER by Gayl Jones (Beacon)
• THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK AND OTHER STORIES by Jamil Jan Kochai (Viking)
• ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT by Sarah Thankam Mathews (Viking)
• THE TOWN OF BABYLON by Alejandro Varela (Astra House)

Nonfiction

• THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O’Rourke (Riverhead)
• SOUTH TO AMERICA: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, by Imani Perry (Ecco)
• BREATHLESS: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, by David Quammen (Simon & Schuster)
• THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS: A Memoir, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)
• HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

Poetry

• LOOK AT THIS BLUE by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Coffee House)
• PUNKS: New & Selected Poems, by John Keene (The Song Cave)
• BALLADZ by Sharon Olds (Knopf)
• BEST BARBARIAN by Roger Reeves (Norton)
• THE RUPTURE TENSE by Jenny Xie (Graywolf)

Translated Literature

• A NEW NAME: Septology VI-VII, by Jon Fosse and translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls (Transit)
• KIBOGO by Scholastique Mukasonga and translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago)
• JAWBONE by Mónica Ojeda and translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker (Coffee House)
• SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES by Samanta Schweblin and translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Riverhead)
• SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH by Yoko Tawada and translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions)

Young People’s Literature

• THE OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
• THE LESBIANA'S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL by Sonora Reyes (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray)
• VICTORY. STAND!: Raising My Fist for Justice, by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile (Norton Young Readers)
• ALL MY RAGE by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)
• MAIZY CHEN'S LAST CHANCE by Lisa Yee (Random House)
   

2022 Longlists

Fiction

• WHEN WE WERE SISTERS by Fatimah Asghar (One World)
• SHUTTER by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
• IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffery (MCD)
• THE RABBIT HUTCH by Tessa Gunty (Knopf)
• THE BIRDCATCHER by Gayl Jones (Beacon)
• THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK AND OTHER STORIES by Jamil Jan Kochai (Viking)
• ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT by Sarah Thankam Mathews (Viking)
• NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE by Leigh Newman (Scribner)
• MARIA, MARIA AND OTHER STORIES by Marytza K. Rubio (Liveright)
• THE TOWN OF BABYLON by Alejandro Varela (Astra House)

Nonfiction

• BRIGHT UNBEARABLE REALITY: Essays, by Anna Badkhen (NYRB)
• TED KENNEDY: A Life, by John A. Farrell (Penguin Press)
• UNCOMMON MEASURE: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time, by Natalie Hodges (Bellevue)
• BAD MEXICANS: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands, by Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton)
• THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O’Rourke (Riverhead)
• SOUTH TO AMERICA: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, by Imani Perry (Ecco)
• BREATHLESS: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, by David Quammen (Simon & Schuster)
• THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS: A Memoir, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)
• HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
• LOST & FOUND: A Memoir, by Kathryn Schulz (Random House)

Poetry

• GOLDEN AX by Rio Cortez (Penguin)
• LOOK AT THIS BLUE by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Coffee House)
• STILL LIFE by Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)
• PUNKS: New & Selected Poems, by John Keene (The Song Cave)
• BALLADZ by Sharon Olds (Knopf)
• BEST BARBARIAN by Roger Reeves (Norton)
• MUMMY EATERS by Sherry Shenoda (University of Nebraska)
• DUENDE by Quincy Troupe (Seven Stories)
• AS SHE APPEARS by Shelley Wong (YesYes)
• THE RUPTURE TENSE by Jenny Xie (Graywolf)

Translated Literature

• IBN ARABI'S SMALL DEATH by Mohammed Hasan Alwan and translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins (Center for Middle Eastern Studies at University of Texas-Austin)
• A NEW NAME: Septology VI-VII, by Jon Fosse and translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls (Transit)
• SEASONS OF PURGATORY by Shahriar Mandanipour and translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili (Bellevue)
• KIBOGO by Scholastique Mukasonga and translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago)
• JAWBONE by Mónica Ojeda and translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker (Coffee House)
• THE EMPLOYEES by Olga Ravn and translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions)
• SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES by Samanta Schweblin and translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Riverhead)
• WHERE YOU COME FROM by Saša Stanišić and translated from the German by Damion Searls (Tin House)
• SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH by Yoko Tawada and translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions)
• THE BOOKS OF JACOB by Olga Tokarczuk and translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead)

Young People’s Literature

• THE OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
• THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF HOODIE ROSEN by Isaac Blum (Philomel)
• A THOUSAND STEPS INTO NIGHT by Traci Chee (Clarion)
• SWIM TEAM by Johnnie Christmas (HarperAlley)
• SELF-MADE BOYS: A Great Gatsby Remix, by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
• THE LESBIANA'S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL by Sonora Reyes (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray)
• VICTORY. STAND!: Raising My Fist for Justice, by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile (Norton Young Readers)
• ALL MY RAGE by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)
• LOTUS BLOOM AND THE AFRO REVOLUTION by Sherri Winston (Bloomsbury)
• MAIZY CHEN'S LAST CHANCE by Lisa Yee (Random House)