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Iranian American Daniel Nayeri鈥檚 鈥淭he Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story" won for young people鈥檚 literature and Argentine Gabriela Cabez贸n C谩mara鈥檚 鈥淲e Are Green and Trembling,鈥� translated from Spanish by Robin Myers, was cited for translated literature.

Winners each receive $10,000.

The awards have often served as a kind of counter voice to current events. The night鈥檚 honorees expressed gratitude for prizes bestowed and for literature itself, and horror and disenchantment at the political and social climate, from immigration raids in the U.S. by masked agents to the carnage in the Middle East.

鈥淚鈥檓 going to speak in Spanish because there are fascists who don鈥檛 like that,鈥� Cabez贸n C谩mara said, her words translated on stage by Myers.

El Akkad said it was 鈥渧ery difficult to to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide (in Gaza). It鈥檚 difficult to think in celebratory terms when I spent two years seeing what shrapnel does to a child鈥檚 body.鈥�

Alameddine's speech, like his novel, combined humor and agony. He began with a lament for the bombing of a Palestinian refugee camp, but went on to joke about the demands of his agent, Nicole Aragi, and thank everyone from his gastrointestinal doctor to the 鈥減sychiatrist who has been telling me to get over myself for more than 20 years.鈥�

Smith, in a highly emotional speech, offered a litany of racial and social barriers she confronted, including harsh words from her ailing mother, while offering tribute to poetry as a path to transcendence.

Hundreds of writers, publishers, editors and other industry professionals gathered at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. The 76th annual 好色tv Book Awards, the so-called Oscars of book publishing, were a celebration, a protest and a performance.

Musical guest Corinne Rae Bailey opened the ceremony with a relaxed, funky 鈥淧ut Your Records On,鈥� and introduced host Jeff Heller, who greeted the 鈥済litterati of the literati.鈥�

The Emmy-winning actor joked that he wasn鈥檛 sure why he was the host, thanked everyone from celebrities who lead book clubs to independent store owners and lamented that a typo in early editions of his recent book, 鈥淎 Certain Actress,鈥� left some readers thinking he had published 鈥淎 Cetain Actress.鈥�

鈥淐an you imagine Madeleine L'Engle discovering the cover of her book read 鈥楢 Wrinkle in Tim鈥�?鈥�

Honorary awards were presented to fiction writer George Saunders and author-publisher-mentor Roxane Gay.

Saunders, widely praised for his legacy of dark humor and warm compassion, was this year鈥檚 recipient of the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, previously given to Toni Morrison and Robert Caro among others. He remembered his early growth as a writer, and how revision changed him on the page and in real life, a 鈥渢ruth-seeking鈥� process that sets the artist apart from the dictator and other bullies.

鈥淲e鈥檙e open to finding out how things actually are, not how we think they are, not how we wish they are, but how they actually are,鈥� he said. 鈥淎nd this puts us in a less delusional relation to reality.鈥�

Gay, given the Literarian medal for her contributions to the book community, noted that writing was a solitary endeavor but that sharing the word was a different challenge. She cited proudly her history of publishing and promoting diverse voices, mocked the idea that 鈥渟traight white men just can鈥檛 catch a break鈥� and urged the industry to change.

鈥淭here is room for all of our voices and there are people in this very room who have the power to do better,鈥� she told the audience. 鈥淵ou have the power to abandon old ways of thinking and nonsense metrics like social media followings as a determining factor in buying a manuscript."

The 好色tv Book Awards were presented by the nonprofit 好色tv Book Foundation. Each competitive category was voted on by judging panels that include writers, booksellers and critics. They select winners from hundreds of books submitted by publishers.