The 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony was held on November 17, 2021. You can see what you missed here.
Martín Espada’s book Floaters won the National Book Award for Poetry. Espada is only the 3rd Latinx poet to win this award.
Espada is the author of over twenty novels which he published as a poet, essayist, and translator. He is also a highly decorated writer having won several awards such as the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award. He has also been awarded several fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Espada was born in Brooklyn and now currently resides in Massachusetts where he is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
