Recognizing excellence in literature published in 2024 and supporting the vital work of innovative writers and adventurous presses, tonight we announced the winners of the 2024 Big Other Book Awards in each of the following categories: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translation. A Readers’ Choice Award and awards for lifetime achievement and outstanding service to the literary community were also presented.

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Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2024 Big Other Book Awards:

Fiction:
Lance Olsen’s Absolute Away (Dzanc Books)

Nonfiction:
Shze-Hui Tjoa’s The Story Game (Tin House)

Poetry:
Kenzie Allen’s Cloud Missives (Tin House)

Translation:
Rodrigo Fresán’s Melvill (Open Letter Books), translated by Will Vanderhyden

Readers’s Choice Award:
Najwan Darwish’s No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024 (Yale University Press), translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Congratulations, again, to all the winners of the 2024 Big Other Book Awards: Kenzie Allen, Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Rodrigo Fresán and Will Vanderhyden, Lance Olsen, and Shze-Hui Tjoa!

Congratulations, again, to the awardees of the 2024 Big Other Lifetime Achievement Award: Annie Dillard, László Krasznahorkai, Salman Rushdie, and Yōko Tawada!

And congratulations, again, to the awardees of the 2024 Big Other Literary Citizenship Award: Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the Palestine Festival of Literature!

View the 2024 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony HERE!