Arthur Sze Wins 2019 National Book Award in Poetry

NPR's Colin Dyer announced this morning that the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry goes to Arthur Sze. A little about the award, last night's ceremony, and the list of winners in all categories:

More than 1,700 books began the autumn with a chance at winning a National Book Award. Now, after a swanky ceremony Wednesday night in Manhattan, the folks behind just five of those books have each emerged with a trophy, a purse of $10,000 and the right to slap that precious gold medallion on the front cover of their work.

The winners of the 70th annual National Book Awards are:

• Fiction: Susan Choi's Trust Exercise
• Nonfiction: Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House
• Poetry: Arthur Sze's Sight Lines
• Translated literature: Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai and translator Ottilie Mulzet
• Young people's literature: Martin W. Sandler's 1919: The Year That Changed America.

Congratulations to all the winners! Read on at NPR.