Take a look below for updates on some of the literary world's highest accolades!

The 2021 National Book Awards
The National Book Foundation was founded in 1989 to administer the National Book Awards, which has been one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the country since 1950. The Foundation also produces numerous educational and public programs that help connect readers to books in new and meaningful ways. Congratulations to this year's winners!

The 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Omar El Akkad won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, What Strange Paradise. El Akkad will be honored with a virtual interview as part of the online 2022 San Miguel Writer's Conference & Literary Festival, on February 13, 2022. The jury said: "Amid all the anger and confusion surrounding the global refugee crisis, Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise paints a portrait of displacement and belonging that is at once unflinching and tender. In examining the confluence of war, migration and a sense of settlement, it raises questions of indifference and powerlessness and, ultimately, offers clues as to how we might reach out empathetically in a divided world." Elana Rabinovitch, executive director of the prize, said that What Strange Paradise "is unflinching in its examination of our current refugee crisis and the lengths to which people will go to find home, safety and belonging. A brilliant book by a brilliant author to whom I wish continued success and ongoing recognition."

The Booker Prize 2021 Winner & Longlist
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. Congratulations to this year's winner: The Promise by Damon Galgut!
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam	Second Place by Rachel Cusk	The Promise by Damon Galgut	The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris	Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Island by Karen Jennings	A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson	No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood	The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed	Bewilderment by Richard Powers
	China Room by Sunjeev Sahota	Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead	Light Perpetual by Franics Spufford

 

2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on June 11th, 2021. The Pulitzer Prize administration awards prizes across 21 categories in journalism, and the arts each year. Click here for the full list of winners.
Fiction A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination. Congratulations to Louise Erdrich and The Night Watchman, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction!
History	Biography	Poetry	General Nonfiction
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne, Tamara Payne	Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz	Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino

 

2020 Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award.
Best Novel	Best Novella
Network Effect by Martha Wells	Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

 

The International Booker Prize 2021

Awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The vital work of translators is celebrated, with the prize money divided equally between the author and translator.

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop translated by Anna Moschovakis Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man’s Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa’s mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German’s severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa’s deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn’t a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend? Peppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a man’s descent into madness.

 

2021 Lammy Award Winners
On June 1, 2021, the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Award winners were announced. For over 30 years, "the Lammys" have identified and honored the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books. The Lammys bring together nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. Here are the latest winners:
Lesbian Fiction	Gay Fiction	Bisexual Fiction	Transgender Fiction	Bisexual Nonfiction
Fiebre Tropical by Juli Delgado Lopera	Neotenica by Joon Oluchi Lee	You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat	The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar	Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Transgender Nonfiction	LGBTQ Nonfiction	Lesbian Poetry	Gay Poetry	Lesbian Memoir/ Biography
The Black Trans Prayer Book by J Mase III & Dane Figueroa Edidi	The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley	Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed	Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral	My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Gay Memoir/ Biography	Lesbian Romance	Gay Romance	LGBTQ Anthology	LGBTQ Children's /Middle Grade
A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi	Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur	The Ghost and Charlie Muir by Felice Stevens	Love After the End by Joshua Whitehead	King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
LGBTQ Young Adult	LGBTQ Comics	LGBTQ Erotica	LGBTQ Mystery	LGBTQ Science Fiction
Flamer by Mike Curato	Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som	The Nerves by Lena Suksi	I Hope You're Listening by Tom Ryan	Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe
LGBTQ Studies
Becoming Human by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

 

The Story Prize 2021

The Story Prize is an annual book award honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction. Eligible books must be written in English and first published in the United States during a calendar year. The finalists for the 2021 award were Danielle Evans for The Office of Historical Corrections, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum for Likes, and Deesha Philyaw for The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.

Congratulations to this year's winner, Deesha Philyaw for The Secret Lives of Church Ladies!

The 2021 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize that honors the best published works of fiction by American permanent residents in a calendar year. Three writers are chosen annually by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to serve as judges for the prize, and these judges are asked to select five books as finalists for the award, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country.
The nominees for the 2021 awards were announced February 2nd, 2021, and the winner will be announced in April. Congratulations to these nominees!

 

The 2020 National Book Critics Circle

 

The National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists were announced on January 24th, 2021. Supporting Book Criticism and Literary Culture since 1974, the National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature. The winners of the awards for books published in 2020 will be announced March 25th, 2021. Congratulations to these nominees!

Autobiography
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong	This is Major by Shayla Lawson	Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer	The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayetu Moore	Home Baked by Alia Volz
Biography
Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley	The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter	Red Comet by Heather Clark	The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne, Tamara Payne	The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
Criticism
Marking Time by Nicole R. Fleetwood	Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell	Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza	Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick	Crap by Wendy A. Woloson
Fiction
Inside Story by Martin Amis	If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan	Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell	How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa	Memorial by Bryan Washington
Nonfiction
The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson	Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro	She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh	Caste by Isabel Wilkerson	Island on Fire by Tom Zoellner
Poetry
Obit by Victoria Chang	Here is the Sweet Hand by Francine J. Harris	Imperial Liquor by Amaud Jamaul Johnson	The Shore by Chris Nealon	Homie by Danez Smith

 

The John Leonard Prize for Best First Book is named for the longtime critic and NBCC co-founder John Leonard, the Leonard Prize is awarded for the best first book in any genre.

John Leonard Prize
Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault	The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio	Luster by Raven Leilani	A Burning by Megha Majumdar	Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
	Real Life by Brandon Taylor		How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

 

The 2021 Newbery and Caldecott Medals

 

The 2021 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature.

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. This year's winner is When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller!

 

 

 

 

 

The 2021 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. This year's winner is We Are Water Protectors illustrated by Michaela Goade and written by Carole Lindsrom!

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was announced on September 9, 2020.
Congratulations to this year's winner, Louise Glück

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel’s will one part was dedicated to “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Read more about the prize here!

 

 

Heartland Booksellers Award 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the first annual Heartland Booksellers Award!

Brought to you by two regional independent bookseller assocations, all the books are selected directly by independent booksellers, and celebrate literature in the Great Lakes and Midwest, with content either about the region, or an author from the region. Celebrating these book awards as one industry force amplifies the impact of the award for booksellers, publishers, authors, and consumers, as 12 states and 300 bookstores throughout the Greater Midwest will celebrate the same set of exemplary titles.

Fiction	Nonfiction	Poetry	Young Adult & Middle Grade	Picture Book
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump	In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado	Homie by Danez Smith	The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys	A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang

 

2020 Women's Prize for Fiction

The 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction was announced on September 9, 2020.
This year's winner is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell!

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honouring women’s fiction. Founded in 1996, the Prize was set up to celebrate originality, accessibility & excellence in writing by women and to connect world-class writers with readers everywhere.

 

 

 

 

 

2020 Edgar Awards Winners

The 2020 Edgar Awards were announced on April 20th, 2020.

Each spring Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television. Here are the latest winners for books published in 2019!

Best Mystery Novel of the Year!	Best Fact Crime
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths	The Less People Know about Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton

Best Paperback Original	Best First Novel by an American Author
The Hotel Neversink by Adam O'Fallon Price	Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

 

 

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced on April 17, 2020.

The 40th annual ceremony recognized outstanding literary works published in 2019. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are committed to litereary excellence, championing new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers.

This year's winner for fiction is The Topeka School by Ben Lerner! Congratulations to all the winners, check them out below!

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction	Biography	Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose	Current Interest	Graphic Novel/Comics
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell	Our Man by George Packer	Black is the Body by Emily Bernard	Charged by Emily Bazelon	The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis

History	Mystery /Thriller	Poetry
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers	Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha	Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Science & Technology	Young Adult Literature	The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
Figuring by Maria Popova	When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn	Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

 

The 2020 Newbery and Caldecott Medals
The 2020 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature.

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

This year's winner is New Kid by Jerry Craft!

 

 

The 2020 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. 

This year's winner is The Undefeated illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander!

 

 

 

2019 Tony Awards
The Tony Awards were announced on June 9, 2019.

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

This year's winner for Best Play is The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth!