November 4, 2025

Jason Mott won the 2021 National Book Award for fiction

November 23, 2021

WHY IN THE NEWS?

  • The 72nd edition of the National Book Award was organized as a virtual event by the National Book Foundation.
  • Jason Mott won the 2021 National Book Award for fiction for his novel “Hell of a Book”, a narrative about a black author’s adventure while travelling around in a book tour.

Winners of 2021 National Book Awards:

CategoryBook Author 
FictionHell of a BookJason Mott
Non-FictionAll That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeTiya Miles
Young People’s LiteratureLast Night at the Telegraph ClubMalinda Lo
PoetryFloatersMartín Espada
Best Translated LiteratureWinter in SokchoElisa Shua Dusapin and translator Aneesa Abbas Higgins
(translated from French)
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