National Book Award / Fiction
The National Book Award for Fiction (National Book Award for Fiction) is awarded for the best novel or short story collection since the 1950s.
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.
Award winners
| 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 Kosinski | 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 | The boyfriend |
| 2019 | Susan Choi | Trust Exercise |
Web links
- National Book Award Winners: 1950–2015 (English)