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General nonfiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category continuous only from 1984, when the general award was restored after two decades of awards in several nonfiction categories. From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general nonfiction, two for biography, and the Bookseller Discovery or Most Original Book was ...
National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1970-1979 Year Author Title Result Ref. 1970 Joyce Carol Oates: them: Winner [31] Leonard Gardner: Fat City: Finalist Leonard Michaels: Going Places: Finalist Jean Stafford: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford: Finalist Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five: Finalist 1971 Saul Bellow: Mr ...
Them (stylized in all lowercase) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the third in her "Wonderland Quartet" following A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) and Expensive People (1968) and preceding Wonderland (1971). It was published by Vanguard in 1969 and it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1970. [1]
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 ...
Lorrie Moore won the prize for fiction on Thursday, while Judy Blume and her longtime ally in the fight against book bans, the American Library Association were given honorary prizes by the ...
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
Host LeVar Burton and special guest Oprah Winfrey gave barn-burning speeches about the freedom to read, while a group of writers took the stage to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award; National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association [2]