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Award Winners in 2021

US

Anthony
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron) (novel)
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Ecco) (first novel)
Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer) (paperback/e-book/audiobook original)

Boston Globe – Horn Book
I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott (Neal Porter Books) (picture book)
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia (Quill Tree) (fiction)
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry by Paula Yoo (Norton) (nonfiction)

Caldecott
We Are Water Protectors illustrated by Michaela Goade and written by Carole Lindstrom (Roaring Brook Press)

Carnegie
Deacon King Kong by James McBride (fiction) (Riverhead)
Fathoms: The World in the Whale! by Rebecca Giggs (nonfiction) (Simon & Schuster)

Center For Fiction First Novel
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (Norton)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
We Germans by Alexander Starritt (fiction) (Little, Brown)
When Time Stopped by Arianna Neuman (nonfiction) (Scribner)

Edgar
Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen (first novel) (Gallery)
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (novel) (Random House)
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole (paperback original) (Morrow)
The Companion by Katie Alender (young adult) (Putnam)

Financial Times Business Book
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth (Bloomsbury)

Hugo
Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tor.com)

IACP
Mosquito Supper Club by Melissa M. Martin (Artisan)

ITW Thriller
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron) (hardcover)
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Ecco) (first novel)
What Lies Between Us by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer) (paperback)

Kirkus
Harrow by Joy Williams (fiction) (Knopf)
Punch Me Up To The Gods by Brian Broome (nonfiction) (Mariner)
All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat (children’s) (Candlewick)

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Joy Williams

Los Angeles Times
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (fiction) (Farrar, Straus)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (first fiction) (West Virginia University Press)
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (current interest) (Random House)
Mad at the World by William Souder (biography) (Norton)
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (mystery/thriller) (Flatiron Books)
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam (young adult) (Balzer + Bray)

National Book Award
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dutton) (fiction)
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles (Random House) (nonfiction)
Floaters by Martín Espada (Norton) (poetry)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Dutton Books for Young Readers) (YA)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Black Cat)
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Little, Brown)
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (Fantagraphics)
Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette (Farrar, Straus)
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz (Grove)

NBCC
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (fiction) (Knopf)
Island on Fire by Tom Zoellner (nonfiction) (Harvard Univ. Press)
Stranger in the Shogun’s City by Amy Stanley (biography) (Scribner)
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong (autobiography) (One World)
Here Is the Sweet Hand by francine j. harris (poetry) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Marking Time by Nicole R. Fleetwood (criticism) (Harvard Univ. Press)
Luster by Raven Leilani (first book) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Newbery
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Random House)

NYPL Young Lions
Pew by Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

PEN/Faulkner
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (West Virginia University Press)

PEN/Hemingway
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn (MCD)

PEN/Jean Stein
Be Holding by Ross Gay (Univ. of Pittsburg Press)

PEN/Robert W. Bingham
Further News of Defeat by Michael X. Wang (Autumn House Press)

Printz
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri (Levine Querido)

Pulitzer Prize
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Harper) (fiction)
Franchise by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright) (history)
Wilmington’s Lie by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly) (nonfiction)
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright) (biography)
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf) (poetry)

Sami Rohr Inspiration Award for Fiction
Nicole Kruass

Story Prize
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (West Virginia University Press)

INTERNATIONAL

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday/Picador)

Atwood Gibson Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize
The Strangers by Katherena Vermette (Penguin Random House Canada)

Booker
The Promise by Damon Galgut (Europa Editions)

Booker International
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (FSG)

Carnegie Medal
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum)

Costa
The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe Books)

Giller
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)

Greenaway Medal
Small in the City by Sydney Smith (Neal Porter Books)

James Tait Black
Lote by Shola von Reinhold (Duke University Press/Jacaranda Books) (fiction)
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa (Biblioasis) (biography)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Stella Prize
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld (Pantheon)

Woman’s Prize
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

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