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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."
Pages in category "American literary awards" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 221 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Book of Mercy: Ron Hansen: Atticus: Jamaica Kincaid: The Autobiography of My Mother: 1998 Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home: Donald Antrim: The Hundred Brothers: Rilla Askew: The Mercy Seat: Mary Gaitskill: Because They Wanted To: Francisco Goldman: The Ordinary Seaman: 1999 Michael Cunningham: The Hours: Russell Banks: Cloudsplitter: Barbara ...
Susan P. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award [20] Given to a New England resident for an unpublished work in one of four categories of children’s literature: picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction. (?) Active Henry David Thoreau Prize [21] Awarded annually to a writer demonstrating literary excellence in nature writing. (?) Active
Winners at the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prizes included Ed Park for fiction, Ivy Pochoda for mystery/thriller and the pro-Palestinian commencement speaker whose name has become a rallying cry for free ...
German Book Prize – for the best German language novel of the year; Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation; Ingeborg Bachmann Prize; Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German; Kleist Prize – first awarded in 1912
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.
In 1948, the advisory board widened the scope of the award with the wording "For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." [3] This change allowed the prize to go to a collection of short stories for the first time, James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific.