Winners of the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature were announced at the 64th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 20, 2013.

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. More information about the National Book Awards can be found here.
 

2013 Winners

Fiction
THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (USA))

Nonfiction
THE UNWINDING: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Poetry
INCARNADINE: Poems by Mary Szybist (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature
THE THING ABOUT LUCK by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

2013 Shortlist

Fiction
THE FLAMETHROWERS by Rachel Kushner (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
THE LOWLAND by Jhumpa Lahiri (Alfred A Knopf/Random House)
THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (USA))
BLEEDING EDGE by Thomas Pynchon (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group (USA))
TENTH OF DECEMBER by George Saunders (Random House)

Nonfiction
BOOK OF AGES: THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF JANE FRANKLIN by Jill Lepore (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
HITLER’S FURIES: GERMAN WOMEN IN THE NAZI KILLING FIELDS by Wendy Lower (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
THE UNWINDING: AN INNER HISTORY OF THE NEW AMERICA by George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THE INTERNAL ENEMY: SLAVERY AND WAR IN VIRGINIA, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton & Company)
DUKE: A LIFE OF DUKE ELLINGTON by Terry Teachout (Gotham Books/Penguin Group USA)

Poetry
METAPHYSICAL DOG by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
STAY, ILLUSION by Lucie Brock-Broido (Alfred A. Knopf)
THE BIG SMOKE by Adrian Matejka (Penguin Poets/Penguin Group (USA))
BLACK APERTURE by Matt Rasmussen (Louisiana State University Press)
INCARNADINE: POEMS by Mary Szybist (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature
THE TRUE BLUE SCOUTS OF SUGAR MAN SWAMP by Kathi Appelt (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
THE SUMMER PRINCE by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
THE THING ABOUT LUCK by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
TWO BOYS KISSING by David Levithan (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
THE REAL BOY by Anne Ursu (Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins)

2013 Longlist

Fiction
PACIFIC by Tom Drury (Grove Press)
THE END OF THE POINT by Elizabeth Graver (Harper/Harper Collins)
THE FLAMETHROWERS by Rachel Kushner (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
THE LOWLAND by Jhumpa Lahiri (Alfred A Knopf/Random House)
A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA by Anthony Marra (Hogarth/Random House)
THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (USA))
SOMEONE by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
BLEEDING EDGE by Thomas Pynchon (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group (USA))
TENTH OF DECEMBER by George Saunders (Random House)
FOOLS by Joan Silber (W.W. Norton & Company)

Nonfiction
FINDING FLORIDA: THE TRUE STORY OF THE SUNSHINE STATE by T.D. Allman (Atlantic Monthly Press)
FACING THE WAVE: A JOURNEY IN THE WAKE OF A TSUNAMI by Gretel Ehrlich (Pantheon Books/Random House)
THE WOLF AND THE WATCHMAN: A FATHER, SON, AND THE CIA by Scott C. Johnson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
BOOK OF AGES: THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF JANE FRANKLIN by Jill Lepore (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
HITLER’S FURIES: GERMAN WOMEN IN THE NAZI KILLING FIELDS by Wendy Lower (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
FREEDOM NATIONAL: THE DESTRUCTION OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1861-1865 by James Oakes (W.W. Norton & Company)
THE UNWINDING: AN INNER HISTORY OF THE NEW AMERICA by George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THE INTERNAL ENEMY: SLAVERY AND WAR IN VIRGINIA, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton & Company)
DUKE: A LIFE OF DUKE ELLINGTON by Terry Teachout (Gotham Books/Penguin Group USA)
GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY, HOLLYWOOD, & THE PRISON OF BELIEF by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)

Poetry
METAPHYSICAL DOG by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
BURY MY CLOTHES by Roger Bonair-Agard (Haymarket Books)
STAY, ILLUSION by Lucie Brock-Broido (Alfred A. Knopf)
SO RECENTLY RENT A WORLD, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: 1968-2012 by Andrei Codrescu (Coffee House Press)
SEASONAL WORKS WITH LETTERS ON FIRE by Brenda Hillman (Wesleyan University Press)
THE BIG SMOKE by Adrian Matejka (Penguin Poets/Penguin Group (USA))
AMERICAN AMNESIAC by Diane Raptosh (Etruscan Press)
BLACK APERTURE by Matt Rasmussen (Louisiana State University Press)
TRANSFER OF QUALITIES by Martha Ronk (Omidawn Publishing)
INCARNADINE: POEMS by Mary Szybist (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature
THE TRUE BLUE SCOUTS OF SUGAR MAN SWAMP by Kathi Appelt (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
FLORA AND ULYSSES: THE ILLUMINATED ADVENTURES by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
A TANGLE OF KNOTS by Lisa Graff (Philomel Books/Penguin Group (USA))
THE SUMMER PRINCE by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
THE THING ABOUT LUCK by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
TWO BOYS KISSING by David Levithan (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
FAR FAR AWAY by Tom McNeal (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
PICTURE ME GONE by Meg Rosoff (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Group (USA))
THE REAL BOY by Anne Ursu (Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins)
BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang (First/Second Macmillan)