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:

Category	Book	Author
Fiction	Hell of a Book	Jason Mott
Non-Fiction	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake	Tiya Miles
Young People’s Literature	Last Night at the Telegraph Club	Malinda Lo
Poetry	Floaters	Martín Espada
Best Translated Literature	Winter in Sokcho	Elisa Shua Dusapin and translator Aneesa Abbas Higgins (translated from French)