Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Elmore Leonard |
| Freedom to Write Award | Liu Xiaobo |
| Fiction | Kim Barnes, A Country Called Home |
| Creative Nonfiction | Steve Lopez, The Soloist |
| Research Nonfiction | Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls |
| Journalism | Karen Olsson |
| Drama | Marisela Trevino Orta, Braided Sorrow |
| Children's Literature | Kathi Applet |
| Poetry | Seido Ray Ronci |
| Translation | Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover, Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin |
| Teleplay | George Mastras, Breaking Bad: Crazy Handful of Nothin' |
| Screenplay | Dustin Lance Black, Milk |
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