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Award Winners in 2022

US

Boston Globe – Horn Book
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin (Atheneum) (picture book)
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill) (fiction)
Black Birds In the Sky by Brandy Colbert (Balzer & Bray) (nonfiction)

Caldecott
Watercress illustrated by Jason Chin and written by Andrea Wang (Neal Porter)

Carnegie
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin (fiction) (Little, Brown)
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (nonfiction) (Random House)

Center For Fiction First Novel
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga (Graywolf)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (fiction) (Harper)
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith (nonfiction) (Little, Brown)

Edgar
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan (first novel) (University of Nebraska Press)
Five Decembers by James Kestrel (novel) (Hard Case Crime)
Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks (paperback original) (Europa Editions)
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (young adult) (Holt)

Financial Times Business Book
Chip War by Chris Miller (Scribner)

James Beard
Everyone’s Table by Gregory Gourdet (Harper Wave)

Kirkus
Trust, by Hernan Diaz (fiction) (Riverhead)
In Sensorium, by Tanaïs (nonfiction) (Harper)
Himawari House, by Harmony Becker (children’s) (First Second)

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Jesmyn Ward

National Book Award
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (Knopf) (fiction)
South to America by Imani Perry (Ecco) (nonfiction)
Punks by John Keene (The Song Cave) (poetry)
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill) (YA)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang (Ecco)
Nuclear Family by Joseph Han (Counterpoint)
If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (Morrow)
Objects of Desire by Claire Sestanovich (Knopf)
Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej (Bloomsbury)

NBCC
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (fiction) (Harper)
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith (nonfiction) (Little, Brown)
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner (biography) (Little, Brown)
Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin (autobiography) (Little, Brown)
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss (poetry) (Greywolf)
Girlhood by Melissa Febos (criticism) (Bloomsbury)
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (first book) (Ecco)

Newbery
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera (Levine Querido)

NYPL Young Lions
I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart (Two Dollar Radio)

PEN/Faulkner
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Atlantic)

PEN/Hemingway
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (One World)

PEN/Jean Stein
The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernandez (Tin House Books)

PEN/Robert W. Bingham
Skinship by Yoon Choi (Knopf)

Printz
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Holt)

Pulitzer Prize
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen (fiction) (New York Review Books)
Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace (history) (Liveright)
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (nonfiction) (Random House)
Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly (biography) (Bloomsbury)
frank by Dianne Seuss (poetry) (Graywolf)

Story Prize
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead)

INTERNATIONAL

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (FSG)

Booker
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Norton)

Booker International
Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (Penguin Books India)

Carnegie Medal
October, October by Katya Balen (Bloomsbury)

Giller
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr (Coach House)

Governor Generals
Pure Color by Sheila Heti (FSG) (fiction)
Aki-wayn-zih by Eli Baxter (McGill-Queens University Press) (nonfiction)

Greenaway Medal
Long Way Down by Danica Novgorodoff, Jason Reynolds (Atheneum)

James Tait Black
A Shock by Keith Ridgway (New Directions) (fiction)
Finding the Raga  by Amit Chaudhuri (NY Review of Books) (biography)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories Press)

Woman’s Prize
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Penguin)

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