Literary Award Winners 2020

27 winning results across 26 literary prizes in the catalogue for 2020. Years follow each prize’s official award cycle: the NBCC uses the books’ eligibility year, while its ceremony takes place the following year. Author prizes are labelled separately.

Prizes represented: The Booker Prize; Hugo Award for Best Novel; International Booker Prize; National Book Award for Fiction; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Nobel Prize in Literature; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Women's Prize for Fiction; Nebula Award for Best Novel; National Book Award for Nonfiction; The People's Book Prize – Non-Fiction; German Book Prize; The People's Book Prize – Children's; National Book Award for Poetry; Akutagawa Prize; Premio Strega; National Book Award for Young People’s Literature; Prix Goncourt; Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction; Pulitzer Prize for Biography; Pulitzer Prize for History; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; The People's Book Prize – Fiction; National Book Award for Translated Literature. Joint winners and historical format categories are shown separately. This list reflects available records; it does not imply that every literary prize has been announced or included.

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2020	Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart	The Booker Prize	winnerSource
2020	A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine	Hugo Award for Best Novel	winnerSource
2020	The Discomfort of Evening Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Translated by Michele Hutchison	International Booker Prize	winnerSource
2020	Interior Chinatown Charles Yu	National Book Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Louise Glück Award for the author’s body of work	Nobel Prize in Literature	winnerSource
2020	Sea Monsters Chloe Aridjis	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2020	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Network Effect Martha Wells	Nebula Award for Best Novel	winnerSource
2020	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne & Tamara Payne	National Book Award for Nonfiction	winnerSource
2020	A Girl Behind Dark Glasses Jessica Taylor-Bearman	The People's Book Prize – Non-Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Annette, ein Heldinnenepos Anne Weber	German Book Prize	winnerSource
2020	Bea Nigel Wormack	The People's Book Prize – Children's	winnerSource
2020	DMZ Colony Don Mee Choi	National Book Award for Poetry	winnerSource
2020	Hakyoku Haruka Tono	Akutagawa Prize	winnerSource
2020	Idol, Burning Rin Usami	Akutagawa Prize	winnerSource
2020	Il colibrì Sandro Veronesi	Premio Strega	winnerSource
2020	King and the Dragonflies Kacen Callender	National Book Award for Young People’s Literature	winnerSource
2020	L'Anomalie Hervé Le Tellier	Prix Goncourt	winnerSource
2020	One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time Craig Brown	Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Sontag: Her Life and Work Benjamin Moser	Pulitzer Prize for Biography	winnerSource
2020	Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America W. Caleb McDaniel	Pulitzer Prize for History	winnerSource
2020	The Tradition Jericho Brown	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry	winnerSource
2020	The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Anne Boyer	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction	winnerSource
2020	The Weighing of the Heart Paul Tudor Owen	The People's Book Prize – Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Tokyo Ueno Station Yu Miri	National Book Award for Translated Literature	winnerSource