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Book clubs everywhere, take heed. The 2018 National Book Award winners were officially announced on Wednesday night at a ceremony in New York City. And, along with the return of the Translated Literature category for the first time since 1983, there were more than a few surprising winners. Here is the full list of this year’s honorees:
Young People’s Literature
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
HarperCollins
Translated Literature
Yoko Tawada, The Emissary
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
New Directions
Poetry
Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency
Coffee House Press
Nonfiction
Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Oxford University Press
Fiction
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
Riverhead