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National Book Award for Nonfiction winners, 1984 to present Year Author Title Result Ref. 1984 Robert V. Remini: Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845: Winner [68] 1985 J. Anthony Lukas: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families: Winner [69] 1986 Barry Lopez
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."
German Book Prize – for the best German language novel of the year; Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation; Ingeborg Bachmann Prize; Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German; Kleist Prize – first awarded in 1912
This list covers only the post-war awards (pre-war awards follow) to general fiction for adult readers: one annual winner from 1950 except two undifferentiated winners 1973 to 1975, dual hardcover and paperback winners 1980 to 1983. For each award, the winner is listed first followed by the finalists.
Books portal; American non-fiction writers have won the American Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Awarded since 1962 for a distinguished work of nonfiction by an American writer that is not eligible in another category. For the authors prize-winning books, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction–winning works
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize; John Burroughs Medal; John C. Zacharis First Book Award; John Leonard Prize; John Lyman Book Awards; John Steinbeck Award for Fiction; John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel; Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize; Judy Gaines Young Book Award
As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood," although there was some struggle over whether the word wholesome should be used instead of whole, the word Pulitzer had written in his will. [3]