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A temporary administrator, the Committee on Awards Policy, "begged" judges not to split awards, yet three of ten awards were split. William Cole explained this in a New York Times column pessimistically entitled "The Last of the National Book Awards" but the Awards were "saved" by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1976.
The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
2008 Premio Ignotus for The Road 2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Road 2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction , for a career whose writing "possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature."
Books by IPPY winners in 2016, 2017 and 2018 were published by university presses including Princeton, Stanford, [8] Yale, Wisconsin, Iowa, and other major university presses. Among the fiction gold medalists was Elena Ferrante's The Story of the Lost Child, originally published in Italy and issued in English by Europa.
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Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author first published in the UK during the two preceding years. Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK.
The Iowa Short Fiction Award is an annual award given for a first collection of short fiction. It has been described as "a respected prize" by the Chicago Tribune , and The New York Times considered it "among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers."
1950s Best First Novel winners [2] Year Author Title Result Ref. 1950 Alan Green: What A Body: Winner Geoffrey Holiday Hall: The End Is Known: Finalist William Krasner: Walk the Dark Streets: Finalist G. G. Lobell and N. D. Lobell: The Shadow and the Blot: Finalist Evelyn Piper: The Innocent: Finalist Bart Spicer: The Dark Light: Finalist 1951 ...