Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| Fiction: | 2666, Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Srauss) |
| General Nonfiction: | The Forever War, Dexter Filkins (Knopf) |
| Biography: | The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Patrick French (Knopf) |
| Autobiography: | My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, Ariel Sabar (Algonquin) |
| Poetry: | Half the World in Light, Juan Felipe Herrera (University of Arizona Press) Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, August Kleinzahler (Farrar, Strauss) |
| Criticism: | Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, Seth Lerer (University of Chicago Press) |
| Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: | PEN American Center |
| Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: | Ron Charles, a fiction critic for The Washington Post |
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