American-Egyptian journalist and author Omar El Akkad won the award for non-fiction for his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, a work examining the West’s response to the genocide in Gaza, at the National Book Awards on Thursday evening. “It’s very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide,” El Akkad said in his acceptance speech. “It’s difficult to think in celebratory terms when I know my tax money is doing this, and