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For a text to be considered creative nonfiction, it must be factually accurate, and written with attention to literary style and technique. Lee Gutkind, founder of the magazine Creative Nonfiction, writes, "Ultimately, the primary goal of the creative nonfiction writer is to communicate information, just like a reporter, but to shape it in a way that reads like fiction."
However, some non-fiction ranges into more subjective territory, including sincerely held opinions on real-world topics. [2] Often referring specifically to prose writing, [3] non-fiction is one of the two fundamental approaches to story and storytelling, in contrast to narrative fiction, which is largely populated by imaginary characters and ...
Pages in category "English-language non-fiction books" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The program was created in 1937 and inaugurated that November for 1936 publications in two English-language categories, conventionally called the 1936 Governor General's Awards. [1] Beginning in 1942 there were two winners annually, with separate awards presented for creative non-fiction and academic non-fiction ; [ 3 ] however, this was ...
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award. With its motto "All the best stories are true", the prize covers current affairs, history, politics, science ...
Rossica Translation Prize – awarded biennially by Academia Rossica [1] to a translation from Russian into English. 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
One of the early English books in the genre is Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). [2] Jim Bishop's The Glass Crutch (1945) was advertised as "one of the most unusual best-sellers ever published—a non-fiction novel." [3] Perhaps the most influential non-fiction novel of the 20th century was John Hersey's Hiroshima (1946). [4]
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction; Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing; British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding; CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction; Duff Cooper Prize; Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit