Winner – Fiction Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward “A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old…
Award Winners
National Book Awards Ceremony 2017
Welcome! Cynthia Nixon is hosting. In addition to the awards, there will be two lifetime achievement awards: President Bill Clinton will present Lifetime Achievement Award to Scholastic Chairman, President and CEO Dick Robinson (BTW, the Best Books Index is a politics-free zone–so trigger warning: there will be a politician at the ceremony!) And Anne Hathaway, Academy…
National Book Awards Reading 2017
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2017 National Book Award Finalists
The finalists for the 2017 National Book Award were announced this morning on CBS This Morning Save the Date November 14th 8-10PM–National Book Awards Finalists Reading (which will be livestreamed.) In NYC? Go! Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here November 15th–The winners will be announced at the National Book Awards gala –which will…
2017 National Book Award Longlist is Announced
Awards season has officially crossed the pond with today’s announcement of the 10 longlisted novels nominated for the National Book Award. Save the Date October 4th–The finalists will be announced November 14th–National Book Awards Finalists Reading (which will be livestreamed) November 15th–The winners will be announced at the National Book Awards gala –which will also be…