Jason Mott took home the National Book Award for fiction. Other winners included Tiya Miles, Martín Espada and Malinda Lo.
Tiya Miles was awarded the nonfiction prize for “All that She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake,” deemed by judges a “brilliant, original work” with “graceful prose.” Beginning in the 1850s in South Carolina, the book follows the journey of a cotton sack across several generations of women.
“Molly, I remember your face when we were having coffee and meeting for the first time and you asked about my projects and I said that I wanted to write a book about an old bag, because your face lit up,” she said. “You were so curious. You were so receptive. You were the perfect editor for this project and you and I both know this was a co-written book.”
Espada thanked — among others — his late father, “who provided both an artistic and ethical example to me throughout my life.” The award in the category of translated literature went to Elisa Shua Dusapin for “Winter in Sokcho,” translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins. Described as a “tender and mysterious novel” by the judges, it follows
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