Prizewinners
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Red Sorghum – Mo Yan
- Change – Mo Yan
2012 Pulitzer Prizes
- Train Dreams – Denis Johnson (Fiction Finalist)
- Swamplandia! – Karen Russell (Fiction Finalist)
- The Pale King – David Foster Wallace (Fiction Finalist)
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern – Steven Greenblatt (General Non-Fiction Winner)
- One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage and the Language of Healing – Diane Ackerman (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men – Mara Hvistendahl (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention – Manning Marable (History Winner)
- Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 – Anne F. Hyde (History Finalist)
- The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden – Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (History Finalist)
- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America – Richard White (History Finalist)
- George F. Kennan: An American Life – John Lewis Gaddis (Biography/Autobiography Winner)
- Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution – Mary Gabriel (Biography/Autobiography Finalist)
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention – Manning Marable (Biography/Autobiography Finalist)
- Life on Mars – Tracy K. Smith (Poetry Winner)
- Core Samples from the World – Forrest Gander (Poetry Finalist)
- How Long – Ron Padgett (Poetry Finalist)
2012 National Book Award
- The Round House – Louise Erdrich (Fiction Winner)
- This Is How You Lose Her – Junot Diaz (Fiction Finalist)
- A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers (Fiction Finalist)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain (Fiction Finalist)
- The Yellow Birds – Kevin Powers (Fiction Finalist)
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo (Non-Fiction Winner)
- Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 – Anne Applebaum (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 – Robert Power (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- The Boy Kings of Texas – Domingo Martinez (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East – Anthony Shadid (Non-Fiction Finalist)
2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka (Winner)
- Lost Memory of Skin – Russell Banks (Finalist)
- The Angel Esmeralda – Don DeLillo (Finalist)
- The Artist of Disappearance – Anita Desai (Finalist)
- We Others: New and Selected Stories – Steven Millhauser (Finalist)
2012 Man Booker Prize
- Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel (Winner)
- Swimming Home – Deborah Levy (Finalist)
- The Light House – Alison Moore (Finalist)
- Umbrella – Will Self (Finalist)
- Narcopolis – Jeff Thayil (Finalist)
- The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng (Finalist)