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Byline: Sophia Nguyen The National Book Awards announced the titles nominated for its 2024 prizes this week. The nonfiction nominees include Salman Rushdie's account of the 2022 stabbing that nearly [...]

Byline: Anton Hur The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year's ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the [...]

Byline: Francine Prose The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year's ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the [...]

Byline: Alejandro Varela The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year's ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the [...]

Byline: Jesmyn Ward The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year's ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the [...]

Byline: Carl Phillips The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year's ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the [...]

Byline: Viet Thanh Nguyen The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year's ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with [...]

MODEL mother-daughter duo Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber hit the red carpet at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York, joined by actresses Emma Roberts, far left, and Kerry [...]

Byline: Sophia Nguyen The National Book Awards announced the finalists for its 2023 prizes on Tuesday. The winners will be announced on Nov. 15 at a ceremony in New York. [...]

Byline: Stephanie Hammett Sept. 18-- Sep. 18--Recent Northwest Passages Book Club guest author Vanessa Veselka's 'The Great Offshore Grounds' made the 2020 National Book Award long list for Fiction, the [...]

Byline: Ron Charles Books about race and the struggle for equality feature prominently among the finalists for the National Book Awards announced Tuesday. The 25 honored titles include a satire [...]

Byline: Bob Keyes Oct. 04--If you don't like the nominees for National Book Awards when they are announced Wednesday, you will have the chance to voice your opinion to the [...]

Byline: Ron Charles Fiction writer Lauren Groff and poet Terrance Hayes are among the finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards announced this morning by the National Book Foundation. Groff, [...]

Oct. 13--The Associated Press story calls today's National Book Award announcement 'the Great American Snub': Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom,' the year's most highly praised and talked about literary novel, was not [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HILLEL ITALIE The publishing industry will attempt a break from the bad news of the marketplace and cheer for literature at the 59th annual National Book [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HILLEL ITALIE Acclaimed novels by Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers, all passed over last fall for the National Book Awards, were among the finalists [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HILLEL ITALIE At a recent lunch on Park Avenue, O.J. Simpson publisher Judith Regan rose and offered a toast to novelist Jess Walter, a finalist for [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HILLEL ITALIE A graphic novel, two narratives in free verse and three books about Sept. 11 _ two fiction and one nonfiction _ were among the [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HILLEL ITALIE Poet Adrienne Rich and two founders of The New York Review of Books have been named recipients of honorary National Book Awards medals, the [...]

(From University Wire) Byline: Allison Buckley Best-selling author John Grisham said Wednesday that it may seem odd that he, 'the unapologetic writer of popular fiction,' is on Faulkner's front porch [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HILLEL ITALIE E.L. Doctorow's 'The March,' his novelization of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's bloody Civil War campaign, and Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking,' her [...]

Three Scholastic Titles Nominated for Top Honors NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic announced today that J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince won Book of the Year [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HILLEL ITALIE What if a people's choice award was held and the people didn't choose? The Quills Awards, organized by NBC-TV and Reed Business Information, which [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The winner of the US National Book Award for non-fiction was announced last week, with 70-year-old author Joan Didion taking the award for her [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US National Book Awards have been presented to the winning authors at a ceremony in New York, with the fiction prize going to [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD 'Eats, Shoot and Leaves' by Lynne Truss took home the book of the year award at the UK's National Book Awards on 7 April [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher FSG was the big winner at the 2003 National Book Awards, taking home every prize except the no-fiction award. Shirley Hazzard won the [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD As Stephen King's latest novel - the fifth in the Dark Tower series, 'The Wolves of Calla' - is released, the author has found [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bestselling author Stephen King is to receive a National Book Award for lifetime achievement. The USD10,000 prize will be presented at the annual National [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A judge for this year's US National Book Award has caused a stir by admitting that he only read a fraction of the books [...]