2014 National Book Award Winners Announced!

The 65th National Book Awards ceremony was held tonight, November 19, 2014, with one winner each in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Scroll down for the list!

The event, hosted by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), also honored science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin with the 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, as well as Kyle Zimmer, founder of First Book -- a nonprofit organization that provides free books to children -- with this year's Literarian Award.

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2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS:
(For detailed lists and information, visit the National Book Foundation website.)

FICTION:

WINNER: Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group (USA))***

FINALISTS:

- Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic)

- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/ Simon & Schuster)

- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)

- Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

FICTION JUDGES: Geraldine Brooks, Sheryl Cotleur, Michael Gorra, Adam Johnson, Lily Tuck

NONFICTION:

WINNER: Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)***

FINALISTS:

- Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)

- Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company)

- John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Company)

- Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company)

NONFICTION JUDGES: Robert Atwan, Gretel Ehrlich, Tom Reiss, Ruth J. Simmons, Alan Taylor

POETRY:

WINNER: Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)***

FINALISTS:

- Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press)

- Maureen N. McLane, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

- Fred Moten, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions)

- Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)

POETRY JUDGES: Eileen Myles, Katie Peterson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Robert Polito, Paisley Rekdal

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

WINNER: Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA))***

FINALISTS:

- Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)

- Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers)

- John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)

- Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE JUDGES: Sharon M. Draper, Starr LaTronica, Dave Shallenberger, Sherri L. Smith, Rebecca Stead

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