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.
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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) |
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