SUNDAY REVIEW / NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED

This week, the National Book Foundation announced the winners of its 2021 National Book Awards in Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. The winners in each category will receive $10,000 and a bronze medal and statue; finalists will receive $1,000 and a bronze medal. 

And the winners are: 

FICTION

Jason Mott, Hell of a Book Dutton / Penguin Random House  

NONFICTION 

Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Random House / Penguin Random House 

POETRY 

 Martín Espada, Floaters W. W. Norton & Company 

TRANSLATED LITERATURE Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho Translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Open Letter) 

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Dutton Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)