And the winners are:

The National Book Awards were announced on November 16th.

FICTION: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)

NONFICTION: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

(W. W. Norton & Company)

POETRY: Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split

(TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)