2012 National Book Awards Winners Announced

Posted on November 15, 2012

The winners of the 2012 National Book Awards were announced at Cipriani, 55 Wall Street, on November 14. The building the National Book Foundation's office is in suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Sandy, but the award ceremony went as scheduled. Here is a list of the winners:

• Fiction: Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
• Nonfiction: Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House)
• Poetry: David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press)
• Young People's Literature: William Alexander, Goblin Secrets (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)