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David Grann

David Grann is the inaugural recipient of the Author of the Year award from Barnes & Noble in 2023, celebrating his impressive array of achievements that began in 2009 with The Lost City of Z and extended into 2023 with The Wager and the film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon. Grann’s writing style, mixing thriller-like stakes and riveting history, solidifies him as one of the literary world’s essential nonfiction voices.

Learn more about The Wager on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast and read more about David Grann on B&N Reads.

David Grann is the inaugural recipient of the Author of the Year award from Barnes & Noble in 2023, celebrating his impressive array of achievements that began in 2009 with The Lost City of Z and extended into 2023 with The Wager and the film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon. Grann’s writing style, mixing thriller-like stakes and riveting history, solidifies him as one of the literary world’s essential nonfiction voices.

Learn more about The Wager on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast and read more about David Grann on B&N Reads.

2023 B&N Discover Prize Winner

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These are novels you will not be able to put down. Explore universal themes of humanity through fully realized characters and indelible prose. See all 70 of our Best Books of 2023 lists here.

These are novels you will not be able to put down. Explore universal themes of humanity through fully realized characters and indelible prose. See all 70 of our Best Books of 2023 lists here.

2023 Winners

The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Nonfiction. This year's fiction prize went to Justin Torres for the novel Blackouts.

The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Nonfiction. This year's fiction prize went to Justin Torres for the novel Blackouts.

2023 Booker Prize Winner

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2023 Winner

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

2023 Winners

The Pulitzer Prize presents awards in the categories of Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction, and Music. This year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded to two books: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Hernan Diaz's Trust.

The Pulitzer Prize presents awards in the categories of Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction, and Music. This year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded to two books: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Hernan Diaz's Trust.

2023 Winners

Our 2023 overall winner is The Swifts by Beth Lincoln. Our Picture Book Winner is How to Eat a Book by Mrs. & Mr. Macleod. A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin is our 2023 YA Winner. The Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards discovers, champions, and celebrates the very best in Children’s publishing in three categories: Picture Books, Young Readers and YA.

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Our 2023 overall winner is The Swifts by Beth Lincoln. Our Picture Book Winner is How to Eat a Book by Mrs. & Mr. Macleod. A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin is our 2023 YA Winner. The Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards discovers, champions, and celebrates the very best in Children’s publishing in three categories: Picture Books, Young Readers and YA.

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