National Book Award

American  

[nash-uh-nl book uh-wawrd, nash-nuhl] / ˈnæʃ ə nl ˈbʊk əˌwɔrd, ˈnæʃ nəl /

noun

1. any of several awards given annually to an author whose book is judged the best in its category: presented 1936–42, reestablished 1950, and since 1998 administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. NBA, N.B.A.

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Example Sentences

But Erikson immersed himself in the community for more than a year and, in 1978, published “Everything in Its Path,” a foundational work in the sociological literature and a finalist for a National Book Award.

From The Wall Street Journal

On Nov. 19, that furious outpouring won the National Book award in nonfiction.

From Los Angeles Times

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hardscrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in ‘Bread of Angels.’

From Los Angeles Times

Morgan, including in a project for which he won the National Book Award, but he feared that more books about “Gilded Age moguls” would make him stale.

From Slate

Gay plans to attend the National Book Awards ceremony in November, where she will be introduced by her friend and fellow writer, Jacqueline Woodson, who won a National Book Award in 2014 for the memoir “Brown Girl Dreaming” and has been a finalist three times since.

From Los Angeles Times