The 2020 winners of the National Book Awards

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s National Book Awards.

The 2020 winner of the National Book Award for Fiction is Charles Yu for Interior Chinatown.

The 2020 winners of the National Book Award for Nonfiction are Les and Tamara Payne for The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.

The 2020 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry is Don Mee Choi for DMZ Colony.

The 2020 winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature is Yu Miri for Tokyo Ueno Station, translated by Morgan Giles.

The 2020 winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature is Kacen Callender for King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender.


You can read more about the winning books here, and you can view the full list of finalists here.

Cover image for Interior Chinatown

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

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