National Book Award
The National Book Award (NBA) is, alongside the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in the United States and has been awarded since 1950. Since 1989, the award has been offered by the National Book Foundation , a non-profit organization founded specifically for this purpose .
Categories
The US $ 10,000 prize has been awarded annually since 1950; currently in the five categories for novels / short story collections , non-fiction , books of poetry , books for young people and translations . Before that there were a number of other categories, but these have gradually been abandoned. The winners of the first four categories must be US citizens and their work must be in English and published in the United States; the National Book Award for Translated Literature is intended to honor both the author and the translator of the excellent work.
Prizes awarded by the National Book Foundation:
| category | Original title | awarded since |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction | National Book Award for Fiction | 1950 |
| Non-fiction | National Book Award for Nonfiction | 1950 |
| Poetry | National Book Award for Poetry | 1950 |
| youth book | National Book Award for Young People's Literature | 1996 (1969) |
| translation | National Book Award for Translated Literature | 2018 |
Furthermore, two prizes for life's work are awarded annually:
- Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (since 1988)
- Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community (since 2005)
Selection process
The National Book Foundation nominates twenty independent judges each year, five for each category. Until 2012, the jury was limited to writers, since 2013 literary critics, librarians and booksellers can also be nominated as jury members. Each jury committee is presided over by a chairman who is available as a mouthpiece and as a contact for the National Book Foundation.
Every year in April, the publishers are invited to propose book titles for one of the four categories. The author must be a US citizen and the title must be published between December 1 of the previous year and November 30 of the current year ( self-publishers are only permitted if they also publish works by other authors). The titles have to be registered by the publishers by May 15th, and free copies of the corresponding free copies have to be sent to the Foundation and the jury members by July 1st. Over the summer, each jury panel reads the books submitted in their respective categories (1529 books were submitted for the National Book Award in 2017, including 394 in the fiction category , 553 in the non-fiction category , 245 in the poetry category and 337 in the youth book category ) . Since 2013, the jury has first put together a shortlist of ten titles per category (“longlist”), which will be published in mid-September. The longlist will be reduced to five final novels (“shortlist”) by mid-October. On the occasion of a “National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner”, the jury committees will decide on the winners in New York in mid-November , each of whom will be honored with prize money of US $ 10,000 and a bronze sculpture. In addition, the authors of the five nominated works will each receive US $ 1,000, a medal and a special mention (“Citation”) on the evening before the award ceremony.
Each award winner is also made a permanent member of the National Book Foundation.
criticism
In response to the lack of consideration for representatives of minorities, the African-American author Ishmael Reed initiated the American Book Award in 1980 , which is presented by the Before Columbus Foundation .
Award winners
Category Fiction ( Fiction )
Saul Bellow (1954, 1965, 1971) was awarded three most wins , followed by John Cheever (1958, 1981), William Faulkner (1951, 1955), William Gaddis (1976, 1994), Bernard Malamud (1959, 1967) , Wright Morris (1957, 1981), Philip Roth (1960, 1995), John Updike (1964, 1982) and Jesmyn Ward (2011 and 2017).
Between 1980 and 1983, prizes for hardcover and paperback books were given separately.
| year | Award winners | title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Nelson Algren | The Man With The Golden Arm | The man with the golden arm |
| 1951 | William Faulkner | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | stories |
| 1952 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity | Damn to all eternity |
| 1953 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | The invisible man |
| 1954 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March | The Adventures of Augie March |
| 1955 | William Faulkner | A fable | A legend |
| 1956 | John O'Hara | Ten North Frederick | Pride and sorrow |
| 1957 | Wright Morris | The Field of Vision | |
| 1958 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle | The dear Wapshots / The Wapshots |
| 1959 | Bernard Malamud | The Magic Barrel | The magic barrel |
| 1960 | Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus | Goodbye, Columbus |
| 1961 | Conrad Richter | The Waters of Kronos | |
| 1962 | Walker Percy | The Moviegoer | The cinema-goer |
| 1963 | JF Powers | Morte D'Urban | God's scriptures are difficult to read |
| 1964 | John Updike | The Centaur | The centaur |
| 1965 | Saul Bellow | duke | duke |
| 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | |
| 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The fixer | The fixer |
| 1968 | Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day | The eighth day of creation |
| 1969 | Jerzy Kosiński | Steps | From the fires |
| 1970 | Joyce Carol Oates | Them | Those |
| 1971 | Saul Bellow | Mr. Collector's Planet | Mr. Collector's Planet |
| 1972 | Flannery O'Connor | The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor | |
| 1973 | John Barth | Chimera | |
| John Williams | Augustus | Augustus | |
| 1974 | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow | The ends of the parabola |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories | The East Broadway Kabbalist | |
| 1975 | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers | Among devils |
| Thomas Williams | The Hair of Harold Roux | ||
| 1976 | William Gaddis | JR | JR |
| 1977 | Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird | The night of the lapwing |
| 1978 | Mary Lee Settle | Blood ties | |
| 1979 | Tim O'Brien | Going After Cacciato | Tracking |
| 1980 | John Irving (Paperback) | The World According to Garp | Garp and how he saw the world |
| William Styron (hardcover) | Sophie's Choice | Sophie's choice / Sophie's decision | |
| 1981 | John Cheever (Paperback) | The Stories of John Cheever | The Swimmer / Marcie Flint's Trouble |
| Wright Morris (hardcover) | Plains song | ||
| 1982 | William Maxwell (Paperback) | So Long, See You Tomorrow | See you tomorrow |
| John Updike (hardcover) | Rabbit is rich | Better relationships | |
| 1983 | Alice Walker (hardcover) | The Color Purple | The colour purple |
| Eudora Welty (Paperback) | Collected Stories of Eudora Welty | ||
| 1984 | Ellen Gilchrist | Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories | |
| 1985 | Don DeLillo | White noise | White noise / white noise |
| 1986 | EL Doctorow | World's Fair | World exhibition |
| 1987 | Larry Heinemann | Paco's story | |
| 1988 | Pete Dexter | Paris Trout | Rabid / Paris Trout |
| 1989 | John Casey | Spartina | Dick Pierce's dream |
| 1990 | Charles Johnson | Middle passage | The passage |
| 1991 | Norman Rush | Mating | The measure |
| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy | All the pretty horses | All the beautiful horses |
| 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | Ship reports |
| 1994 | William Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own | Last instance |
| 1995 | Philip Roth | Sabbath's theater | Sabbath's theater |
| 1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories | Ship fever |
| 1997 | Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain | On the way to Cold Mountain |
| 1998 | Alice McDermott | Charming Billy | Irish farewell |
| 1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting | Waiting |
| 2000 | Susan Sunday | In America | In America |
| 2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | The corrections |
| 2002 | Julia Glass | Three June | |
| 2003 | Shirley Hazzard | The great fire | The big fire |
| 2004 | Lily Tuck | The News from Paraguay | The dictator's mistress / The French mistress |
| 2005 | William T. Vollmann | Europe Central | Europe Central |
| 2006 | Richard Powers | The Echo Maker | The echo of memory |
| 2007 | Denis Johnson | Tree of Smoke | A straight smoke |
| 2008 | Peter Matthiessen | Shadow Country | |
| 2009 | Colum McCann | Let the Great World Spin | The big world / The big world |
| 2010 | Jaimy Gordon | Lord of Misrule | The Lord of Chaos |
| 2011 | Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones | Before the storm |
| 2012 | Louise Erdrich | The Round House | The house of the wind |
| 2013 | James McBride | The Good Lord Bird | Henry Shackleford's crazy diary |
| 2014 | Phil Klay | Redeployment | We shot dogs too |
| 2015 | Adam Johnson | Fortune Smiles: Stories | Nirvana |
| 2016 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | Underground Railroad |
| 2017 | Jesmyn Ward | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Sing, you living and dead, sing |
| 2018 | Sigrid Nunez | The Friend | |
| 2019 | Susan Choi | Trust Exercise |
Category nonfiction ( Nonfiction )
Justin Kaplan (1967, 1981), George F. Kennan (1957, 1968), Peter Matthiessen (1979, 1980), David McCullough (1978, 1982), Arthur M. Schlesinger (1966, 1979) were awarded with two victories. and Lewis Thomas (1975, 1981).
Between 1964 and 1983, prizes were awarded separately for books according to subject area or hardcover and paperback format .
| year | Award winners | title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Ralph L. Rusk | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 1951 | Newton Arvin | Herman Melville | |
| 1952 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us | Secrets of the sea |
| 1953 | Bernard A. DeVoto | The Course of Empire | |
| 1954 | Bruce Catton | A Stillness at Appomattox | |
| 1955 | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Measure of Man | |
| 1956 | Herbert Kubly | An American in Italy | |
| 1957 | George F. Kennan | Russia Leaves the War | |
| 1958 | Catherine Drinker Bowen | The Lion and the Throne | |
| 1959 | J. Christopher Herold | Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael | Madame de Stae͏̈l |
| 1960 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce | James Joyce |
| 1961 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1962 | Lewis Mumford | The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects | The town |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London | |
| Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years | |||
| 1964 | Aileen Ward (Arts and Letters) | John Keats: The Making of a Poet | |
| William H. McNeill (History and Biography) | The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community | ||
| Christopher Tunnard (Science, Philosophy and Religion) | Man-made America | ||
| Boris Pushkarev (Science, Philosophy and Religion) | |||
| 1965 | Eleanor Clark (Arts and Letters) | Oysters of Locmariaquer | |
| Louis Fischer (History and Biography) | The Life of Lenin | The life of Lenin | |
| Norbert Wiener (Science, Philosophy and Religion) | God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion | God & Golem, Inc. | |
| 1966 | Janet Flanner (Arts and Letters) | Paris Journal, 1944-1965 | Paris Diary: 1945–1965 |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (History and Biography) | A thousand days | Kennedy's thousand days | |
| 1967 | Justin Kaplan (Arts and Letters) | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography | |
| Peter Gay (History and Biography) | The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism | ||
| Oscar Lewis (Science, Philosophy and Religion) | La Vida | La vida | |
| 1968 | William Troy (Arts and Letters) | Selected essays | |
| George F. Kennan (History and Biography) | Memoirs: 1925-1950 | Memoirs of a Diplomat | |
| Jonathan Kozol (Science, Philosophy and Religion) | Death at an Early Age | ||
| 1969 | Norman Mailer (Arts and Letters) | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History | Armies out of the night |
| Winthrop D. Jordan (History and Biography) | White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 | ||
| Robert J. Lifton (The Sciences) | Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima | ||
| 1970 | Lillian Hellman (Arts and Letters) | An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir | An unfinished woman |
| T. Harry Williams (History and Biography) | Huey Long | ||
| Erik H. Erikson (Philosophy and Religion) | Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence | Gandhi's truth | |
| 1971 | Francis Steegmuller (Arts and Letters) | Cocteau: A Biography | |
| James MacGregor Burns (History and Biography) | Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom | ||
| Raymond Phineas Stearns (The Sciences) | Science in the British Colonies of America | ||
| 1972 | Charles Rosen (Arts and Letters) | The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven | The classic style |
| Joseph P. Lash (Biography) | Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers | ||
| Stewart Brand (Contemporary Affairs) | The Last Whole Earth Catalog | ||
| Allan Nevins (History) | Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory | ||
| Martin E. Marty (Philosophy and Religion) | Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America | ||
| George L. Small (The Sciences) | The Blue Whale | ||
| 1973 | Arthur M. Wilson (Arts and Letters) | Diderot | |
| James Thomas Flexner (Biography) | George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 | ||
| Frances FitzGerald (Contemporary Affairs) | Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam | ||
| Robert Manson Myers (History) | The Children of Pride | ||
| Isaiah Trunk (History) | Judenrat | ||
| Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Philosophy and Religion) | A Religious History of the American People | ||
| George B. Schaller (The Sciences) | The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations | ||
| 1974 | Pauline Kael (Arts and Letters) | Deeper into the Movies | |
| John Clive (Biography / History) | Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian | ||
| Douglas Day (Biography) | Malcolm Lowry: A Biography | ||
| Murray Kempton (Contemporary Affairs) | The Briar Patch | ||
| Maurice Natanson (Philosophy and Religion) | Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks | ||
| SE Luria (The Sciences) | The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations | Life, the unfinished experiment | |
| 1975 | Roger Shattuck (Arts and Letters) | Marcel Proust | Marcel Proust |
| Lewis Thomas (Arts and Letters / The Sciences) | The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher | Life survived | |
| Theodore Rosengarten (Contemporary Affairs) | All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw | ||
| Bernard Bailyn (History) | The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson | ||
| Robert Nozick (Philosophy and Religion) | Anarchy, State and Utopia | Anarchy, state, utopia | |
| Silvano Arieti (The Sciences) | Interpretation of schizophrenia | ||
| 1976 | Paul Fussell (Arts and Letters) | The Great War and Modern Memory | |
| Michael J. Arlen (Contemporary Affairs) | Passage to Ararat | ||
| David Brion Davis (History and Biography) | The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 | ||
| 1977 | WA Swanberg (Biography and Autobiography) | The Last Idealist | |
| Bruno Bettelheim (Contemporary Thought) | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales | Children need fairy tales | |
| Irving Howe (History) | World of Our Fathers | ||
| 1978 | W. Jackson Bate (Biography and Autobiography) | Samuel Johnson | |
| Gloria Emerson (Contemporary Thought) | Winners & Losers | ||
| David McCullough (History) | The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 | They divided the earth | |
| 1979 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (Biography and Autobiography) | Robert Kennedy and His Times | |
| Peter Matthiessen (Contemporary Thought) | The Snow Leopard | On the trail of the snow leopard | |
| Richard Beale Davis (History) | Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 | ||
| 1980 | Lauren Bacall (Autobiography, hardcover) | Lauren Bacall by Myself | My life |
| Malcolm Cowley (Autobiography, Paperback) | And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978 | ||
| Edmund Morris (Biography, Hardcover) | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| A. Scott Berg (Biography, Paperback) | Max Perkins: Editor of Genius | ||
| Julia Child (Current Interest, Hardcover) | Julia Child and More Company | ||
| Christopher Lasch (Current Interest, Paperback) | The Culture of Narcissism | The age of narcissism | |
| Tom Wolfe (General Nonfiction, hardcover) | The right stuff | The heroes of the nation | |
| Peter Matthiessen (General Nonfiction, Paperback) | The Snow Leopard | On the trail of the snow leopard | |
| Elder Witt (General Reference Books, hardcover) | The Complete Directory | ||
| Tim Brooks (General Reference Books, Paperback) | The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present | ||
| Earle Marsh (General Reference Books, Paperback) | |||
| Henry A. Kissinger (History, hardcover) | The White House Years | memoirs | |
| Barbara W. Tuchman (History, Paperback) | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century | The distant mirror | |
| Elaine Pagels (religion / inspiration, hardcover) | The Gnostic Gospels | Temptation through knowledge | |
| Sheldon Vanauken (Religion / Inspiration, Paperback) | A Severe Mercy | A hard grace / What if it were true? | |
| Douglas Hofstadter (Science, Hardcover) | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Gödel, Escher, Bach - an endless braided band | |
| Gary Zukav (Science, Paperback) | The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics | The dancing Wu-li masters | |
| 1981 | Justin Kaplan (Autobiography / Biography, hardcover) | Walt Whitman | |
| Deirdre Bair (Autobiography / Biography, Paperback) | Samuel Beckett | ||
| Maxine Hong Kingston (General Nonfiction, hardcover) | China Men | The sons of heaven | |
| Jane Kramer (General Nonfiction, Paperback) | The Last Cowboy | ||
| John Boswell (History, hardcover) | Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality | ||
| Leon F. Litwak (History, Paperback) | Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery | ||
| Stephen Jay Gould (Science, hardcover) | The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History | The panda's thumb | |
| Lewis Thomas (Science, Paperback) | The Medusa and the Snail | The medusa and the snail | |
| 1982 | David McCullough (Autobiography / Biography, hardcover) | Mornings on Horseback | |
| Ronald Steel (Autobiography / Biography, Paperback) | Walter Lippmann and the American Century | ||
| Tracy Kidder (General Nonfiction, hardcover) | The Soul of a New Machine | The soul of a new machine | |
| Victor S. Navasky (General Nonfiction, Paperback) | Naming Names | ||
| Father Peter John Powell (History, Hardcover) | People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 | ||
| Robert Wohl (History, Paperback) | The Generation of 1914 | ||
| Donald C. Johanson (Science, hardcover) | The Beginnings of Humankind | ||
| Maitland A. Edey (Science, hardcover) | |||
| Fred Alan Wolf (Science, Paperback) | Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists | The quantum leap is not witchcraft | |
| 1983 | Judith Thurman (Autobiography / Biography, Hardcover) | Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller | Tania Blixen. Your life and work |
| James R. Mellow (Autobiography / Biography, Paperback) | Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times | ||
| Fox Butterfield (General Nonfiction, hardcover) | China: Alive in the Bitter Sea | ||
| James Fallows (General Nonfiction, Paperback) | National Defense | ||
| Alan Brinkley (History, hardcover) | Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression | ||
| Frank E. Manuel (History, Paperback) | Utopian Thought in the Western World | ||
| Fritzie P. Manuel (History, Paperback) | |||
| Lisa Goldstein (Original Paperback) | The Red Magician | The rabbi and the magician | |
| Abraham Pais (Science, hardcover) | “Subtle is the Lord…”: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein | "Lord God is clever ..." | |
| Philip J. Davis (Science, Paperback) | The Mathematical Experience | Experience math | |
| Reuben Hersh (Science, Paperback) | |||
| 1984 | Robert V. Remini | Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 | |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | |
| 1986 | Barry Lopez | Arctic Dreams | Arctic dreams |
| 1987 | Richard Rhode | The Making of the Atom Bomb | |
| 1988 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | The Big Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
| 1989 | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| 1990 | Ron Chernow | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance | |
| 1991 | Orlando Patterson | Freedom | |
| 1992 | Paul Monette | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story | Coming out |
| 1993 | Gore Vidal | United States: Essays 1952-1992 | |
| 1994 | Sherwin B. Nuland | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter | How we die |
| 1995 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism | The revenge of history |
| 1996 | James Carroll | An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us | |
| 1997 | Joseph J. Ellis | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson | |
| 1998 | Edward Ball | Slaves in the Family | The plantations on the Cooper River |
| 1999 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | |
| 2000 | Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | |
| 2001 | Andrew Solomon | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | Saturn's shadow |
| 2002 | Robert A. Caro | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | |
| 2003 | Carlos Eire | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy | |
| 2004 | Kevin Boyle | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age | |
| 2005 | Joan Didion | The Year of Magical Thinking | The year of magical thinking |
| 2006 | Timothy Egan | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | |
| 2007 | Tim Weiner | Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA | CIA: The whole story |
| 2008 | Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | |
| 2009 | TJ Stiles | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt | |
| 2010 | Patti Smith | Just kids | Just kids |
| 2011 | Stephen Greenblatt | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | The turn |
| 2012 | Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Annawadi or The Dream of Another Life / Slum |
| 2013 | George Packer | The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America | The transaction |
| 2014 | Evan Osnos | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China | Big ambitions |
| 2015 | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me | Between me and the world |
| 2016 | Ibram X. Kendi | Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Branded |
| 2017 | Masha Gessen | The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia | |
| 2018 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | |
| 2019 | Sarah M. Broom | The Yellow House |
Category lyric ( poetry )
Were awarded with two wins most AR Ammons (1973, 1993), Alan Dugan (1962, 2001), Philip Levine (1980, 1991), James Merrill (1967, 1979), Theodore Roethke (1959, 1965) and Wallace Stevens ( 1951, 1955).
No prize was awarded between 1984 and 1990.
| year | Award winners | title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | William Carlos Williams | The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia | |
| 1951 | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn | |
| 1952 | Marianne Moore | Collected poems | |
| 1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems, 1917-1952 | |
| 1954 | Conrad Aiken | Collected poems | |
| 1955 | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens | The poems of our climate |
| 1956 | WH Auden | The Shield of Achilles | |
| 1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of the World | |
| 1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 | |
| 1959 | Theodore Roethke | Words for the wind | |
| 1960 | Robert Lowell | Life Studies | |
| 1961 | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo | |
| 1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems | |
| 1963 | William Stafford | Traveling through the dark | |
| 1964 | John Crowe Ransomware | Traveling through the dark | |
| 1965 | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field | |
| 1966 | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice: Poems | |
| 1967 | James Merrill | Nights and Days | |
| 1968 | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body | |
| 1969 | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest | |
| 1970 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Complete Poems | |
| 1971 | Mona Van Duyn | To see, to take | |
| 1972 | Howard Moss | Selected Poems | |
| Frank O'Hara | The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara | ||
| 1973 | AR Ammons | Collected Poems, 1951-1971 | |
| 1974 | Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 | The Fall of America: Poems 1965–1971 |
| Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 | ||
| 1975 | Marilyn Hacker | Presentation piece | |
| 1976 | John Ashbery | Self-portrait in a convex mirror | Self-portrait in the convex mirror |
| 1977 | Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems, 1930-1976 | |
| 1978 | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov | |
| 1979 | James Merrill | Mirabell: Book of Numbers | |
| 1980 | Philip Levine | Ashes | |
| 1981 | Lisel Mueller | The need to hold still | Voices from the forest |
| 1982 | William Bronk | Life Supports: New and Collected Poems | |
| 1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems | |
| Charles Wright | Country Music: Selected Early Poems | ||
| 1984- 1990 |
Prize not awarded | ||
| 1991 | Philip Levine | What Work Is | |
| 1992 | Mary Oliver | New & Selected Poems | |
| 1993 | AR Ammons | Garbage | |
| 1994 | James Tate | A Worshipful Company of Fletchers | |
| 1995 | Stanley Kunitz | Passing Through: The Later Poems | |
| 1996 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Poems 1991-1995 | |
| 1997 | William Meredith | Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems | |
| 1998 | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems | |
| 1999 | Ai | Vice: New & Selected Poems | |
| 2000 | Lucille Clifton | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 | |
| 2001 | Alan Dugan | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry | |
| 2002 | Ruth Stone | In the Next Galaxy | |
| 2003 | CK Williams | The Singing | |
| 2004 | Jean Valentine | Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 | |
| 2005 | WS Merwin | Migration: New and Selected Poems | |
| 2006 | Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem | |
| 2007 | Robert Hass | Time and Materials | |
| 2008 | Mark Doty | Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems | |
| 2009 | Keith Waldrop | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy | |
| 2010 | Terrance Hayes | Lighthead | |
| 2011 | Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split | |
| 2012 | David Ferry | Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations | |
| 2013 | Mary Szybist | Incarnadine | |
| 2014 | Louise lucky | Faithful and Virtuous Night | |
| 2015 | Robin Coste Lewis | Voyage of the Sable Venus | |
| 2016 | Daniel Borzutzky | The Performance of Becoming Human | |
| 2017 | Frank Bidart | Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 | |
| 2018 | Justin Phillip Reed | Indecency | |
| 2019 | Arthur Sze | Sight Lines | |
Category YA ( Young People's Literature )
The National Book Award for young people's books (National Book Award for Young People's Literature) has been awarded since 1996th Previously, from 1969 to 1983 a prize for Children's Books had been awarded.
The two most popular awards for children's books were Lloyd Alexander (1971, 1982) and Katherine Paterson (1977, 1979).
Between 1980 and 1983, prizes were also awarded separately for children's non-fiction and picture books or for hardcover and paperback formats .
| year | Award winners | title | German title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best children's book | ||||
| 1969 | Avoids DeJong | Journey from Peppermint Street | ||
| 1970 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw | A childhood in Warsaw | |
| 1971 | Lloyd Alexander | The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian | Sebastian's wondrous adventures | |
| 1972 | Donald Barthelme | The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn | Mathilda and the fire department, which wasn't quite what it should be | |
| 1973 | Ursula K. LeGuin | The Farthest Shore | The distant shore | |
| 1974 | Eleanor Cameron | The Court of the Stone Children | ||
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | MC Higgins the Great | MC Higgins, the great / MC Higgins, the great | |
| 1976 | Walter D. Edmonds | Bert Breen's Barn | ||
| 1977 | Katherine Paterson | The Master Puppeteer | Puppeteers and bandits | |
| 1978 | Judith Kohl | The View From the Oak | With the eyes of a bee | |
| Herbert Kohl | ||||
| 1979 | Katherine Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Gilly Hopkins | |
| 1980 | Joan W. Blos (hardcover) | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | ||
| Madeleine L'Engle (Paperback) | A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Through time and space | ||
| 1981 | Betsy Byars (fiction, hardcover) | The Night Swimmers | The mysterious moonlit night | |
| Beverly Cleary (Fiction, Paperback) | Ramona and Her Mother | Through time and space | ||
| Alison Cragin Herzig (Nonfiction, Hardcover) | Oh boy Babies | So i like babies | ||
| Jane Lawrence Mali (Nonfiction, Hardcover) | ||||
| 1982 | Lloyd Alexander (fiction, hardcover) | Westmark | Westmark | |
| Ouida Sebestyen (Fiction, Paperback) | Words by Heart | |||
| Susan Bonners (Nonfiction) | A penguin year | |||
| Maurice Sendak (Picture Books, Hardcover) | Outside Over There | When papa was gone | ||
| Peter Spier (Picture Books, Paperback) | Noah's Ark | Noah's ark in pictures | ||
| 1983 | Jean Fritz (fiction, hardcover) | Homesick: My Own Story | Little heart in China | |
| Paula Fox (Fiction, Paperback) | A place apart | |||
| Joyce Carol Thomas (Fiction, Paperback) | Marked by Fire | |||
| James Cross Giblin (Non-Fiction) | Chimney sweeps | |||
| Barbara Cooney (Picture Books, hardcover) | Miss Rumphius | The lupine woman | ||
| William Steig (Picture Books, Hardcover) | Doctor De Soto | Doctor De Soto | ||
| Mary Ann Hoberman (Picture Books, Paperback) | A house is a house for me | |||
| Betty Fraser (Illustrator) (Picture Books, Paperback) | ||||
| 1984- 1995 |
No prizes are awarded for books for children or young people | |||
| Best youth book | ||||
| 1996 | Victor Martinez | Parrot In the Oven: Mi Vida | The parrot in the oven | |
| 1997 | Han Nolan | Dancing on the Edge | ||
| 1998 | Louis Sachar | Holes | Holes | |
| 1999 | Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Summer blues | |
| 2000 | Gloria Whelan | Homeless bird | ||
| 2001 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer | Believe in it | |
| 2002 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | The scorpion house | |
| 2003 | Polly Horvath | The canning season | The blueberry summer | |
| 2004 | Pete Hautman | Godless | ||
| 2005 | Jeanne Birdsall | The Penderwicks | The Penderwicks | |
| 2006 | MT Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party | ||
| 2007 | Sherman Alexia | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian | |
| 2008 | Judy Blundell | What I Saw and How I Lied | The lies we told | |
| 2009 | Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | ||
| 2010 | Kathryn Erskine | Mockingbird | Black and white has many colors | |
| 2011 | Thanhha Lai | Inside Out & Back Again | ||
| 2012 | William Alexander | Goblin Secrets | ||
| 2013 | Cynthia Kadohata | The Thing About Luck | ||
| 2014 | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming | ||
| 2015 | Neal Shusterman | Challenger Deep | ||
| 2016 | John Lewis | March: Book Three | ||
| Andrew Aydin | ||||
| Nate Powell (artist) | ||||
| 2017 | Robin Benway | Far from the tree | ||
| 2018 | Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | ||
| 2019 | Martin W. Sandler | 1919 - The Year That Changed America | ||
Category Translation ( Translated Literature )
A prize for translated literature was awarded for the first time from 1967 to 1983, although the translated author may have already died, for example a Casanova translation was awarded in 1967. Another translation award was awarded in 2018, with the award now being restricted to living authors (and translators).
| year | translator | author | title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Gregory Rabassa | Julio Cortazar | Hopscotch |
| Willard Trask | Casanova | History of My Life (first volume of 6) | |
| 1968 | Howard Hong and Edna Hong | Søren Kierkegaard | Journals and Papers (first volume of 7) |
| 1969 | William Weaver | Italo Calvino | Cosmicomics |
| 1970 | Ralph Manheim | Celine | Castle to Castle |
| 1971 | Frank Jones | Bertolt Brecht | Saint Joan of the Stockyards |
| Edward G. Seidensticker | Yasunari Kawabata | The Sound of the Mountain | |
| 1972 | Austryn Wainhouse | Jacques Monod | Chance and Necessity |
| 1973 | Allen almond tree | Virgil | The Aeneid of Virgil |
| 1974 | Karen Brazell | The Confessions of Lady Nijo | |
| Helen R. Lane | Octavio Paz | Alternating Current | |
| Jackson Matthews | Paul Valery | Monsieur Teste | |
| 1975 | Anthony Kerrigan | Miguel de Unamuno | The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith |
| 1977 | Li-Li Ch'en | Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance | |
| 1978 | Richard Winston and Clara Winston | Uwe George | In the Deserts of This Earth |
| 1979 |
Clayton Eshleman José Rubia Barcia |
César Vallejo | The Complete Posthumous Poetry |
| 1980 | William Arrowsmith | Cesare Pavese | Hard laboratory |
|
Jane Gary Harris Constance Link |
Osip E. Mandelstam | Complete Critical Prose and Letters | |
| 1981 | Francis Steegmuller | Gustave Flaubert | The Letters of Gustave Flaubert |
| John E. Woods | Arno Schmidt | Evening Edged in Gold | |
| 1982 | Robert Lyons Danly | Higuchi Ichiyō | In the Shade of Spring Leaves |
| Ian Hideo Levy | The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry | ||
| 1983 | Richard Howard | Charles Baudelaire | Les Fleurs you times |
| 1984-2017 | not forgiven | ||
| 2018 | Margaret Mitsutani | Tawada Yoko | The Emissary |
| 2019 | Ottilie Mulzet | László Krasznahorkai | Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming |
Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters has been awarded by the National Book Foundation since 1988 as an honorary award for a lifetime achievement.
- 1988 Jason Epstein
- 1989 Daniel J. Boorstin
- 1990 Saul Bellow
- 1991 Eudora Welty
- 1992 James Laughlin
- 1993 Clifton Fadiman
- 1994 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1995 David McCullough
- 1996 Toni Morrison
- 1997 Studs Terkel
- 1998 John Updike
- 1999 Oprah Winfrey
- 2000 Ray Bradbury
- 2001 Arthur Miller
- 2002 Philip Roth
- 2003 Stephen King
- 2004 Judy Blume
- 2005 Norman Mailer
- 2006 Adrienne Rich
- 2007 Joan Didion
- 2008 Maxine Hong Kingston
- 2009 Gore Vidal
- 2010 Tom Wolfe
- 2011 John Ashbery
- 2012 Elmore Leonard
- 2013 EL Doctorow
- 2014 Ursula K. Le Guin
- 2015 Don DeLillo
- 2016 Robert A. Caro
- 2017 Annie Proulx
- 2018 Isabel Allende
Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community
The Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community has been presented by the National Book Foundation since 2005 as an honorary award for a lifetime achievement.
- 2005 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- 2006 Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
- 2007 Terry Gross
- 2008 Barney Rosset
- 2009 Dave Eggers
- 2010 Joan Ganz Cooney
- 2011 Mitchell Kaplan
- 2012 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
- 2013 Maya Angelou
- 2014 Kyle Zimmer
- 2015 James Patterson
- 2016 Cave Canem
- 2017 Richard "Dick" Robinson
- 2018 Doron Weber
Web links
Commons : National Book Award - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- The National Book Foundation's website (English)
- National Book Award Winners: 1950–2015 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c How the National Book Awards Work . In: nationalbook.org (accessed November 26, 2017).
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: nationalbook.org (accessed November 26, 2017).
- ^ Entry in the catalog of the German National Library (accessed on November 16, 2017).
- ^ National Book Award for Translation Added . publishersweekly.com, January 31, 2018, accessed February 1, 2018
- ↑ The Globalization of the National Book Awards , article by Alexandra Alter in the New York Times, January 31, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019.
- ↑ Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters , National Book Foundation page , accessed December 1, 2019.
- ^ Literarian Award , National Book Foundation page , accessed December 1, 2019.
- ^ John Williams: Richard Robinson of Scholastic Honored for Lifetime of Work in Children's Publishing. In: The New York Times . September 20, 2017, accessed November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ National Book Awards Names 2018 Medalists: Isabel Allende and Doron Weber . publishingperspectives.com, September 20, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018
