National Book Awards

At the 62nd National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony yesterday evening in New York City, the following awards were presented: Poet John Ashbery received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of the Miami Book Fair International, received the Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Literary Community.

National Book Award for Fiction



Salvage the Bones
By Ward, Jesmyn
Bloomsbury Publishing

National Book Award for Nonfiction



The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By Greenblatt, Stephen
W. W. Norton & Company
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National Book Award for Poetry
Head Off & Split: Poems
By Finney, Nikky
Triquarterly Books
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National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Inside Out & Back Again

By Lai, Thanhha
Harper
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