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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National Book Award

Marsh had written of Soviet officers knocking on citizens’ doors in pursuit of information for her young-adult novel about authoritarianism in Stalinist Ukraine, a finalist for the National Book Award.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

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 ● Dec. 18, 2025

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 ● Oct. 21, 2025

Just three years later, her second, “Salvage the Bones,” was nominated for — and won — the 2011 National Book Award for fiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

He’s won a Pulitzer, a National Book Award and a job consulting on a cable news show.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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