They handed out the (American) National Book Awards (which they impressively also live-streamed on the Internet -- well done !), the prizes going to:
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (fiction)
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (non)
- Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney (poetry)
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai ('young people's literature')