Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The 61st Annual National Book Awards were presented November 16, 2011, in New York City.
| Fiction: | Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA) |
| Nonfiction: | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton & Company) |
| Poetry: | Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press) |
| Young People's Literature: | Inside Out & Back Again, Thanhha Lai (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) |
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