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National Book Award for Fiction winners, 1950 to 1979 Year Author Title Ref. 1950 Nelson Algren: The Man with the Golden Arm: 1951 William Faulkner: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner: 1952 James Jones: From Here to Eternity: 1953 Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man: 1954 Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March: 1955 William Faulkner: A ...
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National Book Award for Fiction; Awarded for: Outstanding literary work by U.S. citizens. Location: New York City: First awarded: 1935: Website: National Book Foundation
Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honor the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, published each year.
- Winners and Finalists
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- Annual Eligibility
- Medal For Distinguished Contribution
- Literarian Award For Outstanding Service
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National Book Awards are given to one book (author) annually in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, and young people's literature. There have previously been many other categories but they have been retired or subsumed in the existing five. The National Book Foundation also presents two lifetime achievement awards eac...
Pre-war awards by booksellers
The first National Book Awards were presented in May 1936 at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association, one month after The New York Times reported institution of the "new annual award". The winners were authors of four 1935 books selected by a vote of ABA members. Virginia Kirkus chaired the central committee of seven including the ABA president, three bookshops, Publishers Weekly, and American News Company. Three were called "the most distinguished of 1935" (novel, biogr...
Reestablished by the book industry
In January 1950 three book industry organizations announced that "works by Americans published here" would be recognized by three awards in March (at the annual convention?). There would be three distinct panels of five judges. The fifteen judges were "Elmer Davis, John Kieran, Henry Steele Commager, Fairfield Osborn and Norman Cousins for non-fiction; Mary Colum, Glenway Wescott, Max Gissin, W. G. Rogers and Malcolm Cowleyfor fiction; and W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, Babett Duetsch, Horace Gre...
New categories and split awards
In 1964 Nonfiction was divided in three.The National Book Award for Translation was introduced in 1967 and split between two books,the first split. Children's literature was first recognized as one of seven categories in 1969.Two awards were split in 1973 for the first time. Publishers dropped their support after 1974 and the National Book Committee was disbanded.In 1975 the temporary administrator"begged" judges not to split awards. Three of 27 awards were split in 1983before the drastic cut...
A book must be published "between December 1 of the previous year and November 30 of the current year" to be eligible. Its publisher must complete a nomination in the spring and mail copies to the panelists. The panelists read all the valid nominees during this time, and the panels compile shortlists in September. The pre-war awards were announced ...
The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Lettersis a lifetime achievement award presented by the Foundation at the final ceremony for the Book Awards. The medal comes with a cash prize of $10,000. It recognizes someone who "has enriched [American] literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work." Five of the seventeen meda...
The Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Communityis a lifetime achievement award presented by the Foundation annually from 2005. It recognizes "an individual for outstanding service to the American literary community, whose life and work exemplify the goals of the National Book Foundation to expand the audience for lit...
Nov 16, 2022 · The National Book Award, established in 1950, is among the most prestigious literary awards in the world, a prize that can change the trajectory of an author’s career.
Nov 18, 2021 · A guide to the must-read 2021 National Book Award winners and finalists. Here’s what this year’s best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s...
