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National Book Award
[ nash-uh-nl book uh-wawrd, nash-nuhl ]
noun
- any of several awards given annually to an author whose book is judged the best in its category: presented 1936–42, reestablished 1950, and since 1998 administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. : NBA, N.B.A.
Example Sentences
As Ned Blackhawk wrote in “The Rediscovery of America,” his National Book Award–winning history, “The exclusion of Native Americans was codified in the Constitution, maintained throughout the antebellum era, and legislated into the twentieth century: far from being incidental, it enabled the development of the United States. U.S. history as we currently know it does not account for the centrality of Native Americans.”
Ward is one of the most gifted writers of her generation; in addition to this indelible work of nonfiction, she’s twice been awarded the National Book Award for fiction and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Just three years later, her second, “Salvage the Bones,” was nominated for — and won — the 2011 National Book Award for fiction.
Justin Torres is the author of “We the Animals” and “Blackouts,” which won the National Book Award.
Over the course of her extraordinary career, she has written wide-audience books including “Origin of Satan,” received a MacArthur “genius” grant and a National Humanities Medal, and won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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More About National Book Awards
are the National Book Awards?
The National Book Awards are U.S.-based literary awards presented annually in several categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
The awards are presented by the National Book Foundation. Judging panels for each category consist of writers in that category, including previous winners.
The name of the award is often abbreviated as NBA.
When are the National Book Awards?
The 2021 National Book Award winners will be announced on November 17.
Nominations for the National Book Awardare usually announced at the beginning of October, and the awards are usually presented in November.
More information and context onNational Book Awards
An award known as the National Book Award was first established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association, which presented it until 1942. The award was reestablished in 1950 by multiple industry organizations. The awards continued to expand and add categories over the years and were renamed the American Book Awards. Eventually, the National Book Award name was reestablished and the categories were limited to fiction and nonfiction, with administration of the awards coming under the National Book Foundation.
The poetry category was reinstated in 1991. The youth literature category was created in 1996, and the translated literature category was established in 2018.
Notable early winners of the award include Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, Rachel Carson, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O’Connor, and J. D. Salinger.
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How isNational Book Awards discussed in real life?
The National Book Award is considered one of the most prestigious literature awards given in the U.S.
John Lewis' book "March" just won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
— deray (@deray)
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100's of agent rejections over 3 books of querying,over 50 editor rejections over 2 books, then believed in ME (MOTH), a book about hurt & hoodoo & love & storytelling, which is now a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
— Me (Amber McBride)⁷ (@ambsmcbride)
one time when I was 19 I named a character Ambrosius Goldenloin as a joke and then the book got nominated for a National Book Award
— ND Stevenson (@Gingerhazing)
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True or False?
The National Book Award is presented in multiple categories.
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