NEW YORK (AP) — Rabih Alameddine’s blend of family comedy and wartime tragedy, “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother),” has won the National Book Award for fiction.

The nonfiction prize Wednesday night was given to Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," while the poetry winner was Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems."

Daniel Nayeri’s “The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story" won for young people’s literature and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s “We Are Green and Trembling,” translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers, was cited for translated literature.

Hundreds of writers, publishers, editors and other industry professionals gathered at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan for a dinner ceremony that incl

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