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General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941 , there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
Among the fiction authors longlisted for a 2022 National Book Award are Tess Gunty, Jonathan Escofferey and Jamil Jan Kochai.
In 2020, Escoffery received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [3] [5]In September 2022, If I Survive You was the Belletrist Book Club pick. [6] Booklist included it on their 2022 "Booklist Editors' Choice list for adult books", [7] as well as their 2023 list of the "Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts".
The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987, the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation , but they are awards "by writers to writers."
The National Book Award longlist for young people's literature features a range of grownup topics, from the deadly famine in Ukraine in the 1930s to the 1963 March on Washington to the ...
Authors from Asia, Africa and South America are among those on the National Book Awards longlist for translated literature, a category started last year. The 10 fiction and nonfiction works ...
[17] [18] Booklist listed it as a 2022 "Booklist Editors' Choice" for adult books, [19] as well as their 2023 list of the best historical fiction books by debut authors. [ 2 ] If I Survive You was one of six shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize , [ 20 ] [ 21 ] having made the cut from a thirteen-strong longlist. [ 22 ]
The Rabbit Hutch is a 2022 debut novel by American novelist Tess Gunty and winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [2] Gunty also won the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize [3] [4] and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for the novel. [5]