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
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General Nonfiction
Arts and Letters
History and Biography
History
Biography
| 1972 | Joseph P. Lash |
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| 1973 | James Thomas Flexner |
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| 1974 | John Clive | (also won History award)
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| 1974 | Douglas Day |
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| 1975 | Richard B. Sewall | The Life of Emily Dickinson
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| 1980 Hardcover | Edmund Morris | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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| 1980 Paperback | A. Scott Berg |
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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
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| 1973 | Frances FitzGerald |
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| 1974 | Murray Kempton | The Briar Patch
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| 1975 | Theodore Rosengarten |
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| 1976 | Michael J. Arlen | Passage to Ararat
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Contemporary Thought
Current Interest
General Reference Books
| 1980 Hardcover | Elder Witt (ed.) | The Complete Directory
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| 1980 Paperback | Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh |
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Translation
| 1967 | Gregory Rabassa | Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life
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| 1968 | Howard & Edna Hong | Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers
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| 1969 | William Weaver | Calvino's Cosmicomics
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| 1970 | Ralph Manheim | Celine's Castle to Castle
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| 1971 | Frank Jones | Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards
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| 1971 | Edward G. Seidensticker | Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain
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| 1972 | Austryn Wainhouse | Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity
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| 1973 | Allen Mandelbaum | The Aeneid of Virgil
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| 1974 | Karen Brazell | The Confessions of Lady Nijo
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| 1974 | Helen R. Lane | Octavio Paz's Alternating Current
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| 1974 | Jackson Matthews | Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste
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| 1975 | Anthony Kerrigan | Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
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| 1977 | Li-Li Ch'en | Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
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| 1978 | Howard Nemerov | Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth
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| 1979 | Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia | Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry
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| 1980 | William Arrowsmith | Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor
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| 1980 | Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link | Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters
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| 1981 | Francis Steegmuller | The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
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| 1981 | John E. Woods | Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold
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| 1982 | Robert Lyons Danly | Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
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| 1982 | Ian Hideo Levy |
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| 1983 | Richard Howard | Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
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Children's Literature
Children's Books
Children's Books, Fiction
| 1981 Hardcover | Betsy Byars | The Night Swimmers
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| 1981 Paperback | Beverly Cleary | Ramona and Her Mother
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| 1982 Hardcover | Lloyd Alexander | Westmark
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| 1982 Paperback | Ouida Sebestyen | Words by Heart
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| 1983 Hardcover | Jean Fritz |
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| 1983 Paperback | Paula Fox | A Place Apart
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| 1983 Paperback | Joyce Carol Thomas | Marked by Fire
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Children's Books, Non-fiction
| 1981 Hardcover | Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence | Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies
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| 1982 | Susan Bonners | A Penguin Year
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| 1983 | James Cross Giblin | Chimney Sweeps
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Children's Books, Picture Books
See also
External links
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