2019 National Book Award Winners Announced
Last night, the National Book Foundation revealed the winners of this year’s awards at a New York City ceremony hosted by LeVar Burton. Today we present them, Booklist style:
Fiction
★ Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi
Nonfiction
The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom
Translated Literature
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai and translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Poetry
Sight Lines, by Arthur Sze
Young People’s Literature
1919: The Year That Changed America, by Martin W. Sandler
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