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General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award: David Bezmozgis, The Free World; Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost [95] Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Farzana Doctor; honours of distinction, Dani Couture, Matthew J. Trafford. Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2011 Governor General's Awards.
The fifth category, the National Book Award for Translated Literature, was added in 2018, recognizing works in translation for the first time since 1983. [12] At the National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner held in New York City each November, the chair of each judging panel announces the winners of the year's National Book Awards.
The award recognizes one book written by a U.S. citizen and published in the U.S. from December 1 to November 30. The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October.
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Gelett burgess children's book award (USA) – since 2010 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature (USA) – since 1991 The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland) – since 1995
The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."
Winners of the award were considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges selected books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry. The award was established in 1986.