This year's winners in the literature category of the NAACP Image Awards, which were presented over the weekend in Los Angeles, are:
Fiction: Stand Your Ground by Victoria Christopher Murrary (Touchstone)
Nonfiction: Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk (Amistad)
Debut Author: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown)
Biography/Autobiography: Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)
Instructional: Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams (Clarkson Potter)
Poetry: How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes (Penguin)
Children: Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph (Albert Whitman & Company)
Youth/Teens: X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon (Candlewick)
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The shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction is:
Numedia by Tareq Bakari (from Morocco)
Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba by Rabai al-Madhoun (Palestine)
Mercury by Mohamed Rabie (Egypt)
Praise for the Women of the Family by Mahmoud Shukair (Palestine)
A Sky Close to Our House by Shahla Ujayli (Syria)
The Guard of the Dead by George Yaraq (Lebanon)
The winner will be named April 26 during the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.