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Stewart Oxford University Press Poetry Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed Coffee House Press Translated Literature The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani New Directions Publishing Young People’s Literature The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers  <div class=\"at-below-post addthis_tool\" data-url=\"https://www.nationalbook.org/watch-the-2018-national-book-awards-ceremony-live/\"></div>' target="_blank"><img src="https://www.nationalbook.org/wp-content/themes/nationalbook/images/onestorypage/mail.png" alt="Mail"></a> </p> <div class="category below-banner"> <p class="category-date dib vam">November 2018</p> <p class="dib vam"><a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/category/video/" rel="category tag">Video</a></p> <div class="dib vam"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Video-Icon.png?resize=21%2C14&ssl=1" alt="Catgory" /></div> </div> </div> <div class="description"> <div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.nationalbook.org/watch-the-2018-national-book-awards-ceremony-live/"></div><p class="jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent">This slideshow requires JavaScript.</p><div id="gallery-22522-1-slideshow" class="jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black" data-trans="fade" data-autostart="1" data-gallery="[{"src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nationalbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7214-Luis-Alberto-Urrea-and-Isabel-Allende-e1542306721440.jpg?fit=567%2C850\u0026ssl=1","id":"22762","title":"7214 Luis Alberto Urrea and Isabel Allende","alt":"","caption":"Isabel Allende and Lu\u00eds Alberto Urrea. 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(Not pictured: author, Yoko Tawada) Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan","itemprop":"image"},{"src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nationalbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/eNatBook111418Awards_select05.jpg?fit=840%2C560\u0026ssl=1","id":"22747","title":"eNatBook111418Awards_select05","alt":"","caption":"2018 NBAwards Winners: Elizabeth Acevedo, Justin Phillip Reed, Margaret Mitsutani, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Sigrid Nunez. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan","itemprop":"image"}]" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageGallery"></div> <p>The 69th National Book Awards, hosted by Nick Offerman, were streamed live from New York City on November 14, 2018. Lifetime achievement awards were presented to <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/doron-weber/">Doron Weber</a> and <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/isabel-allende/">Isabel Allende</a>, followed by the announcement of the Winners of National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. You can watch the full ceremony below and at our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/NationalBookFdn/videos/491611277998797/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/NationalBookFdn/videos/491611277998797/&source=gmail&ust=1542384677611000&usg=AFQjCNGVEH3yaq788RP7-_4CfDo4aDFEjQ"> Facebook page</a>.</p> <p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNationalBookFdn%2Fvideos%2F491611277998797%2F&show_text=0&width=560" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" align="right" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <h3>2018 Winners</h3> <p><strong>Fiction</strong><br /> <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-friend/"><em>The Friend</em></a> by Sigrid Nunez<br /> Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House</p> <p><strong>Nonfiction</strong><br /> <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-new-negro-the-life-of-alain-locke/"><em>The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke</em></a> by Jeffrey C. 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