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    LA's Tess Gunty, Imani Perry among winners of 2022 National Book Awards

    by Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times Nov 17, 2022 4 minutes
    Tess Gunty attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Nov. 16, 2022, in New York.

    Tess Gunty and Imani Perry were the big winners at the 73rd National Book Awards, taking home honors in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, as the prestigious literary prizes were announced at a gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York for the first time since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on live events.

    But the great champion of Wednesday's ceremony — subject of speeches by lifetime achievement winners, Art Spiegelman and Tracie D. Hall, and host Padma Lakshmi — was the freedom of speech and expression in a time of book bans and violence against writers.

    Gunty won for her debut novel, "The Rabbit Hutch," a kaleidoscopic epic set in a failed Indiana industrial town; Perry was awarded for "South

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