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The national book foundations list of nominees for the prestigious national book award was released today and weve got the full list of fiction authors who are up for the prize. The 2015 national book award nominees, for nonfiction. The national book award has gone to hell no thrill once a literary prize more prestigious than the pulitzer, the national book award has lost its way by trying to. The national book foundation convened wednesday night to present its prestigious awards for the best in books for 2017. The poetry award went to robin coste lewis for her collection, voyage of the sable venus knopf.
The finalists in the four main categories fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Soon, that number will be whittled to just four winners. New york tanehisi coates won the national book award for nonfiction wednesday night for between the world and me, the searing best seller. Explore the best american fiction since the prizes inaugural year in 1950. First awarded in 1950, the national book awards recognize the best of american literature. Browse national book awards honorees, from to the first ceremony in 1950 to the present.
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