The 2023 winners of the National Book Awards — Readings Books

The winners of this year's National Book Awards have been announced! Since 1950, the National Book Awards have been celebrating the best writing in America.

The winner for Fiction is Justin Torres for Blackouts
The winner for Nonfiction is Ned Blackhawk for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
The winner for Poetry is Craig Santos Perez for from unincorporated territory [åmot]
The winner for Translated Literature is Stênio Gardel for The Words That Remain (translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato)
The winner for Young People's Literature is Dan Santat for A First Time for Everything

Learn more about the National Book Awards and this year's winners here.

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