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Award Winners in 2020

US

Boston Globe – Horn Book
Saturday by Oge Mora (Little, Brown) (picture book)
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender (Scholastic) (fiction)
Infinite Hope by Ashley Bryan (Caitlyn Dlouhy Books) (nonfiction)

Caldecott
The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander (Versify)

Carnegie
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (fiction) (Knopf)
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (nonfiction) (S&S)

Center For Fiction First Novel
Luster by Raven Leilani (FSG)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster) (fiction)
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (Penguin) (nonfiction)

FT/McKinsey Business Book
 No Filter, by Sarah Frier (Simon & Schuster)

Hugo
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)

IACP
Jubilee by Toni Tipton-Martin (Clarkson Potter)

James Beard
The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland (Hardie Grant Books)

Kirkus
Luster by Raven Leilani (FSG) (fiction)
Stakes Is High by Mychal Denzel Smith (Bold Type) (nonfiction)
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes (Nancy Paulsen Books) (children’s)

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Colson Whitehead

National Book Award
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Pantheon) (fiction)
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright) (nonfiction)
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi (Wave Books) (poetry)
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender (Scholastic) (YA)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World)
Halsey Street by Naima Coster (Little A)
Luster by Raven Leilani (FSG)
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (SJP for Hogarth)
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead)

NBCC
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (fiction) (Knopf)
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (nonfiction) (Doubleday)
The Queen by Josh Levin (biography) (Little, Brown)
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (autobiography) (Viking)
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker (poetry) (Tin House Books)
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman (criticism) (Norton)

Newbery
New Kid by Jerry Craft (Harper Alley)

NYPL Young Lions
LOT by Bryan Washington (Riverhead)

PEN/Hemingway
A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar (Riverhead)

PEN/Jean Stein
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li (Random House)

PEN/Robert W. Bingham
Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok (Kaya Press)

Printz
Dig by A.S. King (Dutton)

Pulitzer Prize
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) (fiction)
Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press) (history)
The Undying by Anne Boyer (FSG) (nonfiction)
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan) (nonfiction)
Sontag by Benjamin Moser (Ecco) (biography)
The Tradition by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press) (poetry)

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
 Kafka’s Last Trial by Benjamin Balint (Norton)

Story Prize
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)

Thurber
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young (Ecco)

INTERNATIONAL

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
One Two Three Four (published as 150 Glimpses of the Beatles in the US) by Craig Brown (Fourth Estate/FSG)

Booker
Shuggie Bain  by Douglas Stuart (Grove/Picador)

Booker International
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Graywolf)

Carnegie Medal
Lark by Anthony McGowan (Barrington Stoke)

Costa
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey (Peepal Tree)

Giller
How To Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa (Little, Brown/McClelland & Stewart)

Governor Generals
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (Harper) (fiction)
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand (Strange Light) (nonfiction)

Greenaway Medal
Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine/Walker Books)

James Tait Black
Ducks, Newburyport  by Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis/Galley Beggar Press) (fiction)
The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter by George Szirtes (MacLehose Press) (biography)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Louise Gluck

Stella Prize
See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill (Sourcebooks)

Woman’s Prize
Hamnet  by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)

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