Watch the 2018 National Book Awards Ceremony

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The 69th National Book Awards, hosted by Nick Offerman, were streamed live from New York City on November 14, 2018. Lifetime achievement awards were presented to Doron Weber and Isabel Allende, followed by the announcement of the Winners of National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. You can watch the full ceremony below and at our Facebook page.

2018 Winners

Fiction

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Nonfiction

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart

Oxford University Press

Poetry

Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed

Coffee House Press

Translated Literature

The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

New Directions Publishing

Young People’s Literature

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers