National Book Awards Handed To Susan Choi, Arthur Sze And More
The novelist and poet joined Sarah M. Broom, László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, and Martin W. Sandler as winners Wednesday night — receiving $10,000 and a medallion for their front covers.
by Colin Dwyer
Nov 20, 2019
2 minutes
Updated at 10:04 p.m. ET
More than 1,700 books began the autumn with a chance at winning a National Book Award. Now, after a swanky ceremony Wednesday night in Manhattan, the folks behind just five of those books have each emerged with a trophy, a purse of $10,000 and the right to slap that precious gold medallion on the front cover of their work.
The winners of the 70th annual National Book Awards are:
- Fiction: Susan Choi's Trust Exercise
- Nonfiction: Sarah M. Broom's
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