Congratulations to the Winners of 2015 National Book Awards!

Last night, the National Book Foundation announced the winners of 2015 National Book Awards. Congratulations to Adam Johnson (Fiction), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Nonfiction), Neal Shusterman (Young People's Literature), and Robin Coste Lewis (Poetry). What a crew! More, via Huffington Post:

The 2015 National Book Awards took place on Wednesday, where writers convened to celebrate some of the most notable books to be published this year. Satirist Andy Borowitz hosted the event, making quips between the announcements of the honorees and winners. A National Book Award nomination can provide a big boost for a writer's career, so each of the nominees in attendance were rightfully spotlighted. Below are the winners for each category.

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This year in particular has run the gamut of writers who are new to the game, and those who are finally earning due recognition. The fiction nominees include a Pulitzer winner and a debut novelist who was also recognized as one of this year's 5 Under 35 nominees. And -- kudos to the fiction judges, who include Daniel Alarcón and Laura Lippman -- four of the five shortlist nominees were women.

So, even if the awards don't always correlate with a spike in book sales -- although in the case of last year's winners, they did -- they at the very least recognize the important work being done by a diverse range of writers. [...]

Read on at Huffington Post. For the full scope of finalists and long listers, head to the National Book Foundation website. We'll remind you of the finalists in the poetry category:

WINNER:

Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf)

FINALISTS:

Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin/Penguin Random House)

Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)

Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf)