2020 Prizewinners

2020 Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music Winners
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin
The Undying by Anne Boyer
- Pulitzer Prize for History:
Sweet Taste of Liberty by W.Caleb McDaniel
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Sontag by Benjamin Moser
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
2020 Booker Prize Winners
- Booker Prize:
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2020 The John Newbery Medal Winners
- Newbery Medal:
New Kid by Jerry Craft
2020 Edgar Awards Winners--Mystery and Crime
- Edgar Award for Best Novel:
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
- Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author:
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original:
The Hotel Neversink by Adam O'Fallon Price
- Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime:
The Less People Know About Us by Axton Betz-Hamilton
- Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical:
Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
- Edgar Award for Young Adult:
Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
- NBCC Award for Fiction:
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
- NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- NBCC Award for Biography:
The Queen by Josh Levin
- NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- NBCC Award for Criticism:
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
- NBCC Award for Poetry:
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
- NBCC John Leonard Prize: Best First Book in Any Genre:
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
2020 National Book Awards Winners
- National Book Award for Fiction:
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- National Book Award for Nonfiction:
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne
- National Book Award for Poetry:
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature:
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
- National Book Award for Translated Literature:
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri