Winners, 2013 National Book Awards:

• Fiction: The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
• Nonfiction The Unwinding, by George Packer
• Poetry: Incarnadine, by Mary Sybist
• Young People’s Literature: The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata

Winner/Poet Mary Sybist provides the night’s winning quote: “There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle of course, is how much it can do, is how much it does do.”

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