National Book Award1968

Given by National Book Foundation

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Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Each year, the show more Foundation selects a total of twenty Judges, including five in each of the four Award categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. Judges are published writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field, and in some cases, are past NBA Finalists or Winners. One of the five Judges on each panel is selected as the panel chair. This person acts as the voice of the panel and the liaison to the Foundation. The Foundation staff takes no part in the Judges’ deliberations, except to verify a submission’s eligibility. show less
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Announced:
November 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 6

WorkCategoryYear
Selected essays by William TroyArts and Letters1968
The Eighth Day by Thornton WilderFiction1968
Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. KennanHistory and Biography1968
The Light Around the Body by Robert BlyPoetry1968
Death at an Early Age by Jonathan KozolScience, Philosophy, and Religion1968
Papers and Journals: A Selection by Søren Kierkegaard
Howard & Edna Hong, Translation
Translation1968

Finalist 24

WorkCategoryYear
Selected essays by William TroyArts and Letters1968
A primer of ignorance by R. P. BlackmurArts and Letters1968
Stop-Time: A Memoir by Frank ConroyArts and Letters1968
Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture (Centennial Publications of the Univer by Leonard B. MeyerArts and Letters1968
New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II by M. L. RosenthalArts and Letters1968
Beardsley by Stanley WeintraubArts and Letters1968
The Eighth Day by Thornton WilderFiction1968
Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman MailerFiction1968
A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol OatesFiction1968
The Chosen by Chaim PotokFiction1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William StyronFiction1968
Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. KennanHistory and Biography1968
Woodrow Wilson: the academic years by Henry W. BragdonHistory and Biography1968
The Cold War As History by Louis J. HalleHistory and Biography1968
To move a nation; the politics of foreign policy in the administration of John F. Kennedy by Roger HilsmanHistory and Biography1968
Lost New York by Nathan SilverHistory and Biography1968
The Light Around the Body by Robert BlyPoetry1968
Death at an Early Age by Jonathan KozolScience, Philosophy, and Religion1968
Papers and Journals: A Selection by Søren Kierkegaard
Howard & Edna Hong, Translation
Translation1968
The Assembly of Women [in translation] by Aristophanes
Douglass Parker, Translation
Translation1968
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
Arlene B. Werth, Translation
Translation1968
Mother and son; a Brazilian tale by Gilberto Freyre
Barbara Shelby, Translation
Translation1968
Country Judge by Pedro Prado
L. B. Simpson, Translation
Translation1968
The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Elaine Gottlieb and Joseph Singer, Translation
Translation1968

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