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National Book Award winners, 1935–1941 Year Category Author Title 1935 Biography Vincent Sheean: Personal History: Most Original Book Charles G. Finney: The Circus of Dr. Lao: Nonfiction Anne Morrow Lindbergh: North to the Orient: Novel Rachel Field: Time Out of Mind: 1936 Biography Victor Heiser: An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in ...
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.
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 ...
National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 2020–present Year Author Title Result Ref. 2020 Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown: Winner [139] [140] Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind: Finalist [141] Lydia Millet: A Children's Bible: Finalist [141] Deesha Philyaw: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies: Finalist [142] Douglas Stuart: Shuggie ...
National Book Foundation Executive Director Ruth Dickey said in a recent statement that Coates was being honored for a body of work rather than any individual book, and added that while the ...
The finalists for the 2024 publishing year will be announced on Jan. 23, 2025, and awards will be presented on March 20 — which will mark the 50th time the awards have been given. Read the ...
The 75th National Book Awards, presented at a ceremony and benefit dinner by the National Book Foundation, took place on November 20, 2024, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. [1] During the gala, the National Book Foundation presented awards in 5 competitive categories and 2 special categories honoring books released between December 1 ...
Some of her other awards include the National Humanities Medal in 2000, the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011 and the UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in ...