National Book Award winners announced  

In the US, the winners of this year’s National Book Awards have been announced.

The winning titles in each category are:

Fiction

• Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu, Europa Editions)

Nonfiction

• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Les Payne & Tamara Payne, Viking)

Poetry

• DMZ Colony (Don Mee Choi, Wave)

Translated literature

• Tokyo Ueno Station (Yu Miri, trans by Morgan Giles, Tilted Axis Press)

Young people’s literature

• King and the Dragonflies (Kacen Callender, Scholastic).

The winners were chosen from shortlists announced last month.

Two lifetime achievement awards were also awarded: writer Walter Mosley received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and late Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy received the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.

For more information about this year’s awards, see the National Book Foundation website.

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