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Award Winners in 2023

US

Boston Globe – Horn Book
When You Can Swim by Jack Wong (Orchard) (picture book)
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (Holt) (fiction)
Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix) (nonfiction)

Caldecott
Hot Dog, written and illustrated by Doug Salati (Knopf Children’s)

Carnegie
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (fiction) (Knopf)
An Immense World by Ed Yong (nonfiction) (Random House)

Edgar
Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor (first novel) (Soho Press)
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (novel) (Morrow)
Or Else by Joe Hart (paperback original) (Thomas & Mercer)
The Red Palace by June Hur (young adult) (Feiwel & Friends)

James Beard
The Cook You Want to Be by Andy Baraghani (Lorena Jones Books)

Los Angeles Times
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu (fiction) (Deep Vellum)
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad (first fiction) (Riverhead)
Lady Justice by Dahlia Lithwick,  (current interest) (Penguin)
G-Man by Beverly Gage (biography) (Viking)
Secret Identity by Alex Segura (mystery/thriller) (Flatiron Books)
Torch by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (young adult) (Lerner)

NBCC
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (fiction) (FSG)
The Method by Isaac Butler (nonfiction) (Bloomsbury)
G-Man by Beverly Gage (biography) (Viking)
Stay True by Hua Hsu (autobiography) (Doubleday)
Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz (poetry) (Four Way)
Free Indirect by Timothy Bewes (criticism) (Columbia)
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (first book) (Tin House)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour (Mariner)
A Calm & Normal Heart by Chelsea T. Hicks (Unnamed Press)
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Tin House)
Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie (Riverhead)
The Sorrows of Others by Ada Zhang (A Public Space)

Newbery
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (Jimmy Patterson)

NYPL Young Lions
Brother Alive by Zain Khalid (Grove)

PEN/Faulkner
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li (FSG)

PEN/Hemingway
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah (Algonquin)

PEN/Jean Stein
Dr. No. by Percival Everett (Graywolf)

PEN/Robert W. Bingham
Night of the Living Rez by Moran Talty (Tin House)

Printz
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)

Pulitzer Prize
Trust by Hernan Diaz (fiction) (Riverhead)
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (fiction) (Harper)
Freedom’s Dominion by Jefferson Cowie (history) (Basic)
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (nonfiction) (Viking)
G-Man by Beverly Gage (biography) (Viking)
Then the War Carl Phillips (poetry) (FSG)

Story Prize
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (FSG)

INTERNATIONAL

Booker International
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Liveright)

Carnegie Medal
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros (Deep Vellum)

James Tait Black
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) (fiction)
Come Back in September by Darryl Pinckney (FSG) (biography)

Woman’s Prize
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

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