The National Book Awards are the preeminent literary awards in the United States, presented annually for the best book by a living US citizen published in the United States.
The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and is presently awarded in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Over the years, awards in several categories have been retired or subsumed into other categories. The winners, selected in each category by five-member, independent judging panels, each receive a US$ 10,000 cash prize and a crystal sculpture.
Winners of the National Book Awards
Current categories
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Young People's Literature
Previous categories
In 1964, the categories Arts and Letters, History and Biography & Science, Philosophy and Religion categories had the addendum (Nonfiction).
In 1981, Children's Books, Fiction was called Children's Book, Fiction; and in 1983 it was called Children's Fiction.
In 1981, Children's Books, Non-fiction was called Children's Book, Nonfiction.
In 1983 Children's Books, Picture Books was called Children's Books, Picture Books.
First Novel
First Work of Fiction
Science Fiction
Mystery
Western
Original Paperback
1983 |
Lisa Goldstein |
The Red Magician |
General Nonfiction
Arts and Letters
History and Biography
History
Biography
1972 |
Joseph P. Lash |
|
1973 |
James Thomas Flexner |
|
1974 |
John Clive |
(also won History award) |
1974 |
Douglas Day |
|
1975 |
Richard B. Sewall |
The Life of Emily Dickinson |
1980 Hardcover |
Edmund Morris
|
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
1980 Paperback |
A. Scott Berg |
|
Biography and Autobiography
Autobiography
Autobiography/Biography
Science, Philosophy and Religion
The Sciences
Science
Philosophy and Religion
Religion/Inspiration
Contemporary Affairs
1972 |
Stewart Brand (ed.)
|
The Last Whole Earth Catalogue |
1973 |
Frances FitzGerald |
|
1974 |
Murray Kempton |
The Briar Patch |
1975 |
Theodore Rosengarten |
|
1976 |
Michael J. Arlen |
Passage to Ararat |
Contemporary Thought
Current Interest
General Reference Books
1980 Hardcover |
Elder Witt (ed.) |
The Complete Directory |
1980 Paperback |
Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh |
|
Translation
1967 |
Gregory Rabassa
|
Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life |
1968 |
Howard & Edna Hong |
Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers |
1969 |
William Weaver |
Calvino's Cosmicomics |
1970 |
Ralph Manheim |
Celine's Castle to Castle |
1971 |
Frank Jones |
Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards |
1971 |
Edward G. Seidensticker |
Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain |
1972 |
Austryn Wainhouse |
Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity |
1973 |
Allen Mandelbaum
|
The Aeneid of Virgil |
1974 |
Karen Brazell |
The Confessions of Lady Nijo |
1974 |
Helen R. Lane |
Octavio Paz's Alternating Current |
1974 |
Jackson Matthews |
Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste |
1975 |
Anthony Kerrigan |
Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith |
1977 |
Li-Li Ch'en |
Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance |
1978 |
Howard Nemerov
|
Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth |
1979 |
Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia
|
Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry |
1980 |
William Arrowsmith |
Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor |
1980 |
Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link |
Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters |
1981 |
Francis Steegmuller |
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert |
1981 |
John E. Woods |
Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold |
1982 |
Robert Lyons Danly |
Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves |
1982 |
Ian Hideo Levy |
|
1983 |
Richard Howard
|
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal |
Children's Literature
Children's Books
Children's Books, Fiction
1981 Hardcover |
Betsy Byars |
The Night Swimmers |
1981 Paperback |
Beverly Cleary
|
Ramona and Her Mother |
1982 Hardcover |
Lloyd Alexander
|
Westmark |
1982 Paperback |
Ouida Sebestyen |
Words by Heart |
1983 Hardcover |
Jean Fritz |
|
1983 Paperback |
Paula Fox |
A Place Apart |
1983 Paperback |
Joyce Carol Thomas |
Marked by Fire |
Children's Books, Non-fiction
1981 Hardcover |
Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence |
Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies |
1982 |
Susan Bonners |
A Penguin Year |
1983 |
James Cross Giblin |
Chimney Sweeps |
Children's Books, Picture Books
See also
External links
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