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General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
Among the fiction authors longlisted for a 2022 National Book Award are Tess Gunty, Jonathan Escofferey and Jamil Jan Kochai.
The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, established in 1976, [1] is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English." [2] Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions.
In 2020, Escoffery received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [3] [5]In September 2022, If I Survive You was the Belletrist Book Club pick. [6] Booklist included it on their 2022 "Booklist Editors' Choice list for adult books", [7] as well as their 2023 list of the "Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts".
This year's honorees are a thrilling blend of familiar favorites and rising stars.
The National Book Award longlist for young people's literature features a range of grownup topics, from the deadly famine in Ukraine in the 1930s to the 1963 March on Washington to the ...
The surviving awards for general Fiction and Nonfiction, now with precisely five finalists each, were administered by National Book Awards, Inc., whose Chairman of the Board was the president of Hearst Trade Book Group. He declaimed that "Book people are really not actors, and there's a realization now that we should not try to reward things ...
Authors from Asia, Africa and South America are among those on the National Book Awards longlist for translated literature, a category started last year. The 10 fiction and nonfiction works ...