At the 2017 National Book Awards, Jesmyn Ward won her second prize in the Fiction category for “Sing, Unburied, Sing” and Russian journalist Masha Gessen won the Nonfiction trophy.

Fiction

Elliot Ackerman, “Dark at the Crossing”

Lisa Ko, “The Leavers”

Min Jin Lee, “Pachinko”

Carmen Maria Machado, “Her Body and Other Parties: Stories”

Winner: Jesmyn Ward, “Sing, Unburied, Sing”

Nonfiction

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge”

Frances FitzGerald, “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America”

Winner: Masha Gessen, “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”

David Grann, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”

Nancy MacLean, “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”

Poetry

Winner: Frank Bidart, “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”

Leslie Harrison, “The Book of Endings”

Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”

Shane McCrae, “In the Language of My Captor”

Danez Smith, “Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems”

Young People’s Literature

Elana K. Arnold, “What Girls Are Made Of”

Winner: Robin Benway, “Far from the Tree”

Erika L. Sánchez, “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”

Rita Williams-Garcia, “Clayton Byrd Goes Underground”

Ibi Zoboi, “American Street”