Delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Big Other Book Awards!
All the books below are linked to their respective pages at Bookshop. Visit the Big Other Shop there, where you can find the list of finalists in its entirety.
Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2019 Big Other Book Awards:
Fiction:
Karen An-hwei Lee’s The Maze of Transparencies (Ellipsis Press)
Graphic Novel:
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass (Drawn and Quarterly), translated by Janet Hong
Nonfiction:
Robert Macfarlane’s Underland (W. W. Norton)
Poetry:
Timothy Donnelly’s The Problem of the Many (Wave Books)
Translation:
László Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming (New Directions), translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Readers’s Choice Award:
Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic
Kudos to all of the winners! Kudos, too, to the 2019 Big Other Literary Citizen Awardees: Tobias Carroll, Jane Ciabattari, Gabino Iglesias, and Janice Lee! And kudos to the 2019 Big Other Lifetime Achievement Awardees: Giannina Braschi, Samuel R. Delany, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, and John Yau!
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