PREVIOUS WINNERS
2023
The Gotham Book Prize announced for the first time two winners of the third annual 2023 prize: Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana and The Sewing Girl’s Tale by John Wood Sweet. The authors of the two winning books split the increased $70,000 prize, and they were honored at a celebration at P&T Knitwear on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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2022
Andrea Elliott's Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, an in-depth portrait of New York and the struggles and achievements of a Black girl from Brooklyn, won the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize for outstanding works about the city.
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2021
The Gotham Book Prize, an annual award created to encourage and honor writing about New York City in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, announced that James McBride was selected as the winner of the first annual 2021 Gotham Book Prize for Deacon King Kong. A jury made up of leading New Yorkers nominated a shortlist of ten books last summer and determined McBride's novel best captured the hardship and compassion of living in New York City.
