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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction winners and finalists Year Author Title Result Ref. 1975 E. L. Doctorow. Ragtime. Winner [5] 1976 John Gardner. October Light. Winner [6] Cynthia Ozick: Bloodshed and Three Novellas: Finalist [6] Vladimir Nabokov: Details of a Sunset and Other Stories: Renata Adler: Speedboat: Richard Yates: The ...
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners and finalists Year Author Title Result Ref. 1980 Walker Percy: The Second Coming: Winner [1] Joyce Carol Oates: Bellefleur: Finalist [1] John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces: William Golding: Darkness Visible: John le Carré: Smiley's People: 1981 D. M. Thomas: The White Hotel: Winner [2 ...
David Eggers, double winner of the Book Prize in 2009. Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989 ...
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners, 2020–2029 [6] Year Author Title Ref. 2020 Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters [34] Yiyun Li: Where Reasons End [35] Peter Rock: The Night Swimmers: Maurice Carlos Ruffin: We Cast a Shadow: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 2021 Deesha Philyaw: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies [36] [37] Matthew Salesses
Authors and publishers outside the United States were eligible and there were several winners by non-U.S. authors (at least Lofts, Curie, de Saint-Exupéry, Du Maurier, and Llewellyn). The Bookseller Discovery and the general awards for fiction and non-fiction were conferred six times in seven years, the Most Original Book five times, and the ...
Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. Nor does the NBC Circle consider "cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children's books". They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any ...
Only publishers nominate books for the National Book Awards, but panelists may request particular nominations from publishers. Each panel comprises five judges, including writers, librarians, booksellers, and literary critics. In 2013, the judging panels were expanded to include experts in the literary field in addition to established writers. [10]
Authors who have won the award more than once include William Faulkner, John Updike, William Gaddis, Jesmyn Ward, and Philip Roth, each having won on two occasions along with numerous other nominations. Saul Bellow won the award in three decades (1954, 1965, 1971) and is the only author to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times.