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69 Winners of the 2022 National Book Awards were announced successful a unrecorded awards ceremonial connected November 16 successful New York City. From the 25 finalists unveiled successful October, 5 winners were chosen for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.
The awards ceremonial was opened and hosted by Padma Lakshmi, an award-winning shaper of the Hulu docuseries Taste the Nation and a New York Times bestselling author. In her remarks, she took the accidental to code the ongoing book banning efforts. “Today, books similar excavation are nether attack…The main books targeted discussed LGBTQ+ themes oregon characters, person protagonists of color, code issues of contention and racism, oregon each three… his emergence successful publication banning isn’t simply from a fewer acrophobic parents. It’s a monolithic censorship run from organizations moving with authorities and section officials to restrict entree to books, and it coincides with the transition of the parental rights successful acquisition instrumentality successful Florida oregon the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.”
Lakshmi went connected to accidental that deciding what books are successful schoolhouse libraries is the occupation of librarians, not politicians. “It’s not the occupation of politicians to privation to proceed to whitewash this country.”
Then, she revealed that erstwhile doing the probe for her Hulu show, she had discovered determination was truthful overmuch astir the country’s past that she did not larn successful school, but should have. She admitted that she needed to larn much astir Indigenous history, migrant history, and organization racism. “I don’t privation my girl to beryllium shielded from history. I privation her to person entree to what was missing from my classrooms. I privation kids of her procreation to larn the information and not conscionable the information that isn’t painful. Looking astatine the information of our history, of who we were and who we are present arsenic a country, are the archetypal steps to knowing and reconciling the past sins of our nation. But we can’t larn those lessons if we’re not adjacent allowed to unfastened those books.”
Before revealing the winners of this year’s National Book Awards, Ibram X. Kendi presented Tracie D. Hall with the 2022 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, portion Neil Gaiman presented the 2022 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Art Spiegelman.
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The winners of the 2022 National Book Awards Winners are arsenic follows:
Fiction:
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Tess Gunty’s debut caller The Rabbit Hutch, astir Blandine and 3 different teenagers sharing a derelict apartment, won the Fiction category.
This year’s Fiction judges were Michelle Malonzo, Pam Houston, Dana Johnson, Brandon Hobson, and Ben Fountain.
Nonfiction:
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
The victor for Nonfiction was Imani Perry’s South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, which explores societal issues successful the American South.
The Nonfiction class was judged this twelvemonth by Carol Anderson, Melissa Febos, Thor Hanson, Janet Webster Jones, and Oscar Villalon.
Poetry:
Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
The victor for Poetry was John Keene’s Punks: New & Selected Poems, which is an ode to the poet’s friends, lovers, and salient Black people, among others.
This year’s Poetry judges were Kwame Dawes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Keetje Kuipers, January Gill O’Neil, and Mai Der Vang.
Translated Literature:
Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
The victor of the Translated Literature class was Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses, a postulation of abbreviated stories featuring 7 houses and translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell.
Russell Scott Valentino, Veronica Esposito, Ann Goldstein, Rohan Kamicheril, and Nick Buzanski were this year’s Translated Literature judges.
Young People’s Literature
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage, which follows the lives of 4 Pakistani immigrants successful the United States, was named Young People’s Literature winner.
Lilliam Rivera, Becky Albertalli, Joseph Bruchac, Meghan Dietsche Goel, and Jewell Parker Rhodes were this year’s Young People’s Literature judges.
Each victor received $10,000 arsenic good arsenic a bronze sculpture, portion each finalist received a bronze medal and $1,000. For the Translated Literature Award, the prize wealth is divided arsenic betwixt the translator and the author.
The National Book Awards, established successful 1950, admit outstanding works of penning by American authors.
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