Here Are The 2017 National Book Award Winners

The winners were revealed at the 68th National Book Awards ceremony.

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Jarry Lee
by Jarry Lee

BuzzFeed Deputy Books Editor

The Fiction award went to Jesmyn Ward for Sing, Unburied, Sing.

Beowulf Sheehan, Scribner

Read an excerpt from Sing, Unburied, Sing here.

Masha Gessen won the Nonfiction award for The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.

Tanya Sazansky, Riverhead Books

Read an excerpt from The Future Is History here.

The Poetry award went to Frank Bidart for Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.

James Franco, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Robin Benway won the Young People's Literature award for Far from the Tree.

Lovato Images, HarperTeen
Gus Powell, Scholastic

Congratulations to all!

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