The winners for the 2015 National Book Awards were announced last night:
Fiction:
Winner: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson (Random House)
Finalists:
- Karen E. Bender, Refund: Stories (Counterpoint Press)
- Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
Nonfiction:
Winner: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)
Finalists:
- Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group)
- Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (Atria/Simon & Schuster)
- Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
- (Henry Holt and Company)
- Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light (Alfred A. Knopf)
Poetry:
Winner: Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis (Knopf)
Finalists:
- Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin/Penguin Random House)
- Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)
- Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf)
Young People's Literature:
Winner: Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (HarperTeen)
Finalists:
- Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Laura Ruby, Bone Gap (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children's Books)
- Steve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
- Noelle Stevenson, Nimona (HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books)
