National Book Award

National Book Award

Nagroda za	twórczość literacką
Przyznający	National Book Foundation
Państwo	Stany Zjednoczone
Pierwsze rozdanie	1936
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National Book Award (Narodowa Nagroda Książkowa) – jedna z najbardziej prestiżowych nagród literackich w Stanach Zjednoczonych, ustanowiona w 1936 przez Amerykańskie Stowarzyszenie Księgarzy (American Booksellers Association). Od 1950 otrzymują je autorzy amerykańscy za wydaną w danym roku publikację. Od 1988 nagrodami zajmuje się National Book Foundation.

Nagrody są przyznawane obecnie w 4 kategoriach: literatura piękna, literatura faktu, poezja i literatura młodzieżowa.

Laureaci są wybierani w każdej kategorii przez 5 osobowe, niezależne, eksperckie jury. Zwycięzcy i zdobywcy drugiego miejsca są ogłaszani w listopadzie na specjalnych The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner (ceremonia i obiad). Zwycięzca otrzymuje 10 tys. dolarów, następny nagrodzony (runner-up) 1 tys.

Zwycięzcy National Book Awards

Bieżące kategorie

Literatura piękna

1950	Nelson Algren	The Man with the Golden Arm
1951	William Faulkner	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952	James Jones	Stąd do wieczności (From Here to Eternity)
1953	Ralph Ellison	Niewidzialny człowiek (Invisible Man)
1954	Saul Bellow	Przypadki Augiego Marcha (The Adventures of Augie March)
1955	William Faulkner	Przypowieść (A Fable)
1956	John O’Hara	Ten North Frederick
1957	Wright Morris	The Field of Vision
1958	John Cheever	Kronika Wapshotów (The Wapshot Chronicle)
1959	Bernard Malamud	Żydoptak (The Magic Barrel)
1960	Philip Roth	Goodbye, Columbus
1961	Conrad Richter	The Waters of Kronos
1962	Walker Percy	Kinoman (The Moviegoer)
1963	J.F. Powers	Morte D'Urban
1964	John Updike	Centaur (The Centaur)
1965	Saul Bellow	Herzog (Herzog)
1966	Katherine Anne Porter	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967	Bernard Malamud	Fachman (The Fixer)
1968	Thornton Wilder	The Eighth Day
1969	Jerzy Kosiński	Kroki (Steps)
1970	Joyce Carol Oates	Oni (Them)
1971	Saul Bellow	Planeta pana Sammlera (Mr. Sammler’s Planet)
1972	Flannery O’Connor	The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
1973	John Barth	Chimera
1973	John Edward Williams	Augustus
1974	Thomas Pynchon	Tęcza grawitacji (Gravity’s Rainbow)
1974	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Korona z piór (A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories)
1975	Robert Stone	Dog Soldiers
1975	Thomas Williams	The Hair of Harold Roux
1976	William Gaddis	J R
1977	Wallace Stegner	The Spectator Bird
1978	Mary Lee Settle	Blood Ties
1979	Tim O’Brien	W pogoni za Cacciatem (Going After Cacciato)
1980 Hardcover	William Styron	Wybór Zofii (Spohie’s Choice)
1980 Paperback	John Irving	Świat według Garpa (The World According to Garp)
1981 Hardcover	Wright Morris	Plains Song
1981 Paperback	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever
1982 Hardcover	John Updike	Jesteś bogaty, Króliku (Rabbit is Rich)
1982 Paperback	William Maxwell	So Long, See You Tomorrow
1983 Hardcover	Alice Walker	Kolor purpury (The Color Purple)
1983 Paperback	Eudora Welty	Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1984	Ellen Gilchrist	Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1985	Don DeLillo	Biały szum (White Noise)
1986	E.L. Doctorow	Wystawa światowa (World’s Fair)
1987	Larry Heinemann	Paco's Story
1988	Pete Dexter	Paris Trout
1989	John Casey	Spartina
1990	Charles Johnson	Middle Passage
1991	Norman Rush	Mating
1992	Cormac McCarthy	Rącze konie (All the Pretty Horses)
1993	Annie Proulx	Kroniki portowe (The Shipping News)
1994	William Gaddis	A Frolic of His Own
1995	Philip Roth	Teatr Sabata (Sabbath’s Theater)
1996	Andrea Barrett	Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997	Charles Frazier	Zimna Góra (Cold Mountain)
1998	Alice McDermott	Charming Billy
1999	Ha Jin	Waiting
2000	Susan Sontag	W Ameryce (In America)
2001	Jonathan Franzen	Korekty (The Corrections)
2002	Julia Glass	Three Junes
2003	Shirley Hazzard	The Great Fire
2004	Lily Tuck	The News from Paraguay
2005	William Vollmann	Europe Central
2006	Richard Powers	The Echo Maker
2007	Denis Johnson	Drzewo dymu (Tree of Smoke)
2008	Peter Matthiessen	Shadow Country
2009	Collum McCann	Niech zawiruje świat (Let the Great World Spin)
2010	Jaimy Gordon	Lord of Misrule
2011	Jesmyn Ward	Zbieranie kości (Salvage the Bones)
2012	Louise Erdrich	The Round House
2013	James McBride	The Good Lord Bird
2014	Phil Klay	Redeployment
2015	Adam Johnson	Fortune Smiles: Stories
2016	Colson Whitehead	Kolej podziemna. Czarna krew Ameryki (The Underground Railroad)
2017	Jesmyn Ward	Śpiewajcie, z prochów, śpiewajcie (Sing, Unburied, Sing)
2018	Sigrid Nunez	Przyjaciel (Friend)
2019	Susan Choi	Trust Exercise
2020	Charles Yu	Ucieczka z Chinatown (Interior Chinatown)
2021	Jason Mott	Hell of a Book
2022	Tess Gunty	The Rabbit Hutch
2023	Justin Torres	Blackouts

Literatura faktu

1950	Ralph L. Rusk	Ralph Waldo Emerson (artykuł o R.W. Emersonie)
1951	Newton Arvin	Herman Melville (artykuł o Hermanie Melville’u)
1952	Rachel Carson	The Sea Around Us
1953	Bernard A. De Voto	The Course of Empire
1954	Bruce Catton	A Stillness at Appomattox
1955	Joseph Wood Krutch	The Measure of Man
1956	Herbert Kubly	An American in Italy
1957	George F. Kennan	Russia Leaves the War
1958	Catherine Drinker Bowen	The Lion and the Throne (artykuł o Edwardzie Coke’u)
1959	J. Christopher Herold	Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Staël (biografia Madame de Staël)
1960	Richard Ellmann	James Joyce (artykuł o Jamesie Joyce)
1961	William L. Shirer	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1962	Lewis Mumford	The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
1963	Leon Edel	Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
1984	Robert V. Remini	Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 (artykuł o Andrew Jacksonie)
1985	J. Anthony Lukas	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1986	Barry Lopez	Arctic Dreams
1987	Richard Rhodes	The Making of the Atom Bomb
1988	Neil Sheehan	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (artykuł o J.P. Vannie)
1989	Thomas L. Friedman	From Beirut to Jerusalem
1990	Ron Chernow	The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
1991	Orlando Patterson	Freedom
1992	Paul Monette	Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
1993	Gore Vidal	United States: Essays 1952–1992
1994	Sherwin B. Nuland	How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter
1995	Tina Rosenberg	The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
1996	James P. Carroll	An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
1997	Joseph J. Ellis	American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
1998	Edward Ball	Slaves in the Family
1999	John W. Dower	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2000	Nathaniel Philbrick	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
2001	Andrew Solomon	The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
2002	Robert A. Caro	Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2003	Carlos Eire	Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
2004	Kevin Boyle	Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
2005	Joan Didion	The Year of Magical Thinking
2006	Timothy Egan	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2007	Tim Weiner	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2008	Annette Gordon-Reed	The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2009	T.J. Stiles	The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
2010	Patti Smith	Just Kids
2011	Stephen Greenblatt	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
2012	Katherine Boo	Zawsze piękne. Życie, śmierć i nadzieja w slumsach Bombaju (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity)
2013	George Packer	The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
2014	Evan Osnos	Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
2015	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Between the World and Me
2016	Ibram X. Kendi	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
2017	Masha Gessen	The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
2018	Jeffrey C. Stewart	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
2019	Sarah M. Broom	Żółty dom. Wspomnienia (The Yellow House)
2020	Tamara Payne, Les Payne	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
2021	Tiya Miles	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
2022	Imani Perry	South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
2023	Ned Blackhawk	The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Poezja

1950		William Carlos Williams	Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems
1951		Wallace Stevens	The Auroras of Autumn
1952		Marianne Moore	Collected Poems
1953		Archibald MacLeish	Collected Poems, 1917–1952
1954		Conrad Aiken	Collected Poems
1955		Wallace Stevens	The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
1956		W.H. Auden	The Shield of Achilles
1957		Richard Wilbur	Things of This World
1958		Robert Penn Warren	Promises: Poems, 1954–1956
1959		Theodore Roethke	Words for the Wind
1960		Robert Lowell	Life Studies
1961		Randall Jarrell	The Woman at the Washington Zoo
1962		Alan Dugan	Poems
1963		William Stafford	Traveling Through the Dark
1964		John Crowe Ransom	Selected Poems
1965		Theodore Roethke	The Far Field
1966		James Dickey	Buckdancer's Choice: Poems
1967		James Merrill	Nights and Days
1968		Robert Bly	The Light Around the Body
1969		John Berryman	His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
1970		Elizabeth Bishop	The Complete Poems
1971		Mona Van Duyn	To See, To Take
1972		Frank O’Hara	The Collected Works of Frank O’Hara
1972		Howard Moss	Selected Poems
1973		A.R. Ammons	Collected Poems, 1951–1971
1974		Adrienne Rich	Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972
1974		Allen Ginsberg	The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965–1971
1975		Marilyn Hacker	Presentation Piece
1976		John Ashbery	Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
1977		Richard Eberhart	Collected Poems, 1930–1976
1978		Howard Nemerov	The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
1979		James Merrill	Mirabell: Book of Numbers
1980		Philip Levine	Ashes
1981		Lisel Mueller	The Need to Hold Still
1982		William Bronk	Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
1983		Charles Wright	Country Music: Selected Early Poems
1984		Galway Kinnell	Selected Poems
1985		Nagrody nie przyznano
1986		Nagrody nie przyznano
1987		Nagrody nie przyznano
1988		Nagrody nie przyznano
1989		Nagrody nie przyznano
1990		Nagrody nie przyznano
1991		Philip Levine	What Work Is
1992		Mary Oliver	New & Selected Poems
1993		A.R. Ammons	Garbage
1994		James Tate	A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
1995		Stanley Kunitz	Passing Through: The Later Poems
1996		Hayden Carruth	Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
1997		William Meredith	Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
1998		Gerald Stern	This Time: New and Selected Poems
1999		Ai	Vice: New & Selected Poems
2000		Lucille Clifton	Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000
2001		Alan Dugan	Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
2002		Ruth Stone	In the Next Galaxy
2003		C.K. Williams	The Singing
2004		Jean Valentine	Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003
2005		W.S. Merwin	Migration: New & Selected Poems
2006		Nathaniel Mackey	Splay Anthem
2007		Robert Hass	Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005
2008		Mark Doty	Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems
2009		Keith Waldrop	Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
2010		Terrance Hayes	Lighthead
2011		Nikky Finney	Head Off & Split
2012		David Ferry	Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
2013		Mary Szybist	Incarnadine
2014		Louise Glück	Faithful and Virtuous Night
2015		Robin Coste Lewis	Voyage of the Sable Venus
2016		Daniel Borzutzky	The Performance of Becoming Human
2017		Frank Bidart	Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016
2018		Justin Phillip Reed	Indecency
2019		Arthur Sze	Sight Lines
2020		Don Mee Choi	DMZ Colony
2021		Martín Espada	Floaters
2022		John Keene	Punks: New and Selected Poems
2023		Craig Santos Perez	from incorporated territory (åmot)

Literatura młodzieżowa

1996	Victor Martinez	Parrott In the Oven: MiVida
1997	Han Nolan	Dancing on the Edge
1998	Louis Sachar	Holes
1999	Kimberly Willis Holt	When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
2000	Gloria Whelan	Homeless Bird
2001	Virginia Euwer Wolff	True Believer
2002	Nancy Farmer	Dom Skorpiona (The House of the Scorpion)
2003	Polly Horvath	The Canning Season
2004	Pete Hautman	Godless
2005	Jeanne Birdsall	The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
2006	M.T. Anderson	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I
2007	Sherman Alexie	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2008	Judy Blundell	What I Saw and How I Lied
2009	Phillip Hoose	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
2010	Kathryn Erskine	Mockingbird
2011	Thanhha Lai	Inside Out and Back Again
2012	William Alexander	Goblin Secrets
2013	Cynthia Kadohata	The Thing About Luck
2014	Jacqueline Woodson	Brown Girl Dreaming
2015	Neal Shusterman	Challenger Deep
2016	John Lewis, Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin	March: Book Three
2017	Robin Benway	Far from the Tree
2018	Elizabeth Acevedo	The Poet X
2019	Martin W. Sandler	1919 The Year that Changed America
2020	Kacen Callender	King and the Dragonflies
2021	Malinda Lo	Last Night at the Telegraph Club
2022	Sabaa Tahir	All My Rage
2023	Dan Santat	A First Time for Everything

Przekład

1967	Gregory Rabassa	Gra w klasy (Hopscotch) Julia Cortázara
1967	Willard Trask	Historia mojego życia (History of My Life) Casanovy
1968	Howard & Edna Hong	Journals and Papers Sørena Kierkegaarda
1969	William Weaver	Opowieści kosmikomiczne (Cosmicomics) Italo Calvino
1970	Ralph Manheim	Z zamku do zamku (Castle to Castle) Celine’a
1971	Frank Jones	Saint Joan of the Stockyards Bertolta Brechta
1971	Edward G. Seidensticker	Głos góry (The Sound of The Mountain) Yasunari Kawabaty
1972	Austryn Wainhouse	Przypadek i konieczność (Chance and Necessity) Jacques’a Monod
1973	Allen Mandelbaum	Eneida (The Aeneid) Wirgiliusza
1974	Karen Brazell	The Confessions of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo
1974	Helen R. Lane	Alternating Current Octavio Paza
1974	Jackson Matthews	Wieczór z panem Teste (Monsieur Teste) Paula Valéry’ego
1975	Anthony Kerrigan	Agonia chrystianizmu (The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith) Miguela de Unamuno
1977	Li-Li Ch'en	Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
1978	Howard Nemerov	In the Deserts of This Earth Uwe Georgea
1979	Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia	The Complete Posthumous Poetry Césara Vallejo
1980	William Arrowsmith	Praca męczy (Hard Labor) Cesare Pavese
1980	Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link	Complete Critical Prose and Letters Osipa Madelsztama
1981	Francis Steegmuller	The Letters of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flauberta
1981	John E. Woods	Evening Edged in Gold Arno Schmidta
1982	Robert Lyons Danly	In the Shade of Spring Leaves Higuchi Ichiyo
1982	Ian Hideo Levy	The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry
1983	Richard Howard	Kwiaty zła (Les Fleurs du mal) Charles’a Baudelaire’a
1984-2017	nie przyznano nagród
2018	Margaret Mitsutani	The Emissary Yokō Tawady
2019	Ottilie Mulzet	Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming László Krasznahorkaia
2020	Morgan Giles	Stacja Tokio Ueno (Tokyo Ueno Station) Miri Yu
2021	Aneesa Abbas Higgins	Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin
2022	Megan McDowell	Seven Empty Houses, Samanta Schweblin
2023	Bruna Dantas Lobato	The Words That Remain, Stênio Gardel

Minione kategorie

Powieść debiutancka

1980	William Wharton	Ptasiek (Birdy)
1981	Ann Arensberg	Sister Wolf
1982	Robb Forman Dew	Dale Loves Sophie to Death
1983	Gloria Naylor	The Women of Brewster Place

Proza debiutancka

1984	Harriet Doerr	Stones for Ibarra
1985	Bob Shacochis	Easy in the Islands

Science Fiction

1980 Hardcover	Frederik Pohl	Jem
1980 Paperback	Walter Wangerin Jr.	The Book of the Dun Cow

Thriller

1980 Hardcover

John D. MacDonald

The Green Ripper

Western

1980

Louis L’Amour

Bendigo Shafter

Original Paperback

1983

Lisa Goldstein

The Red Magician

Pozostała literatura faktu

Maxine Hong Kingston

1980 Hardcover	Tom Wolfe	Najlepsi. Kowboje, którzy polecieli w kosmos (The Right Stuff)
1980 Paperback	Peter Matthiessen	Śnieżna pantera (The Snow Leopard)
1981 Hardcover	Maxine Hong Kingston	China Men
1981 Paperback	Jane Kramer	The Last Cowboy
1982 Hardcover	Tracy Kidder	The Soul of a New Machine
1982 Paperback	Victor S. Navasky	Naming Names
1983 Hardcover	Fox Butterfield	China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
1983 Paperback	James Fallows	National Defense

Literatura i sztuka

1964	Aileen Ward	John Keats: The Making of a Poet
1965	Eleanor Clark	The Oysters of Locmariaquer
1966	Janet Flanner	Paris Journal, 1944–1965
1967	Justin Kaplan	Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
1968	William Troy	Selected Essays
1969	Norman Mailer	Armie nocy (The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History)
1970	Lillian Hellman	An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
1971	Francis Steegmuller	Cocteau: A Biography
1972	Charles Rosen	The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
1973	Arthur M. Wilson	Diderot
1974	Pauline Kael	Deeper Into Movies
1975	Roger Shattuck	Marcel Proust
1975	Lewis Thomas	The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
1976	Paul Fussell	The Great War and Modern Memory

Historia i biografie

1964	William H. McNeill	The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
1965	Louis Fischer	The Life of Lenin
1966	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	A Thousand Days
1967	Peter Gay	The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism
1968	George F. Kennan	Memoirs: 1925–1950
1969	Winthrop D. Jordan	White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
1970	T. Harry Williams	Huey Long
1971	James MacGregor Burns	Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
1976	David Brion Davis	The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823

Historia

1972	Allan Nevins	Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863–1864 and The Organized War to Victory
1973	Robert Manson Myers	The Children of Pride Isaiah Trunk
1973	Isaiah Trunk	Judenrat
1974	John Clive	Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (zwycięzca również w kategorii Biografia)
1975	Bernard Bailyn	The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (artykuł Thomasie Hutchinsonie)
1977	Irving Howe	World of Our Fathers
1978	David McCullough	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914
1979	Richard Beale Davis	Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763
1980 Hardcover	Henry Kissinger	The White House Years
1980 Paperback	Barbara W. Tuchman	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
1981 Hardcover	John Boswell	Chrześcijaństwo, tolerancja społeczna i homoseksualność (Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality)
1981 Paperback	Leon F. Litwack	Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
1982 Hardcover	Father Peter John Powell	People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879
1982 Paperback	Robert Wohl	The Generation of 1914
1983 Hardcover	Alan Brinkley	Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
1983 Paperback	Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel	Utopian Thought in the Western World

Życiorys

1972	Joseph P. Lash	Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
1973	James Thomas Flexner	George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799
1974	John Clive	Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (also won History award)
1974	Douglas Day	Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
1975	Richard B. Sewall	The Life of Emily Dickinson
1980 Hardcover	Edmund Morris	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
1980 Paperback	A. Scott Berg	Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Biografia i autobiografia

1977	W.A. Swanberg	Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist
1978	W. Jackson Bate	Samuel Johnson
1979	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	Robert Kennedy and His Times

Autobiografia

1980 Hardcover	Lauren Bacall	Lauren Bacall by Myself
1980 Paperback	Malcolm Cowley	And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978

Autobiografia/Biografia

1981 Hardcover	Justin Kaplan	Walt Whitman
1981 Paperback	Deirdre Bair	Samuel Beckett
1982 Hardcover	David McCullough	Mornings on Horseback
1982 Paperback	Ronald Steel	Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1983 Hardcover	Judith Thurman	Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
1983 Paperback	James R. Mellow	Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time

Nauka, filozofia i religia

1964	Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev	Man-made America
1965	Norbert Wiener	God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
1967	Oscar Lewis	Nagie życie (La Vida)
1968	Jonathan Kozol	Death at an Early Age

Nauki

1969	Robert J. Lifton	Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
1971	Raymond Phineas Sterns	Science in the British Colonies of America
1972	George L. Small	The Blue Whale
1973	George B. Schaller	The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
1974	S.E. Luria	Life: The Unfinished Experiment
1975	Silvano Arieti	Interpretation of Schizophrenia
1975	Lewis Thomas	The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (also won Arts and Letters award)

Nauka

1980 Hardcover	Douglas Hofstadter	Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
1980 Paperback	Gary Zukav	The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
1981 Hardcover	Stephen Jay Gould	The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History
1981 Paperback	Lewis Thomas	The Medusa and the Snail
1982 Hardcover	Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey	Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
1982 Paperback	Fred Alan Wolf	Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
1983 Hardcover	Abraham Pais	„Subtle is the Lord...”: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
1983 Paperback	Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh	The Mathematical Experience
1983 Paperback	Joyce Carol Thomas	Marked by Fire

Filozofia i religia

1970	Erik H. Erikson	Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
1972	Martin E. Marty	Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
1973	S.E. Ahlstrom	A Religious History of the American People
1974	Maurice Natanson	Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks
1975	Robert Nozick	Anarchia, państwo, utopia (Anarchy, State, and Utopia)

Religia/Duchowość

1980 Hardcover	Elaine Pagels	Ewangelie gnostyckie (The Gnostic Gospels)
1980 Paperback	Sheldon Vanauken	A Severe Mercy

Sprawy bieżące

1972	Stewart Brand (ed.)	The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
1973	Frances FitzGerald	Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
1974	Murray Kempton	The Briar Patch
1975	Theodore Rosengarten	All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
1976	Michael J. Arlen	Passage to Ararat

Myśl współczesna

1977	Bruno Bettelheim	Cudowne i pożyteczne. O znaczeniach i wartościach baśni (The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales)
1978	Gloria Emerson	Winners & Losers
1979	Peter Matthiessen	Śnieżna pantera (The Snow Leopard)

Kwestie bieżące

1980 Hardcover	Julia Child	Julia Child and More Company
1980 Paperback	Christopher Lasch	The Culture of Narcissism

Książki służące jako źródła

1980 Hardcover	Elder Witt (ed.)	The Complete Directory
1980 Paperback	Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh	The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present

Literatura dla dzieci

1969	Meindert DeJong	Journey from Peppermint Street
1976	Walter D. Edmonds	Bert Breen's Barn
1977	Katherine Paterson	The Master Puppeteer
1978	Judith & Herbert Kohl	The View From the Oak
1979	Katherine Paterson	Wspaniała Gilly (The Great Gilly Hopkins)

Książki dla dzieci

1970	Isaac Bashevis Singer	A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
1971	Lloyd Alexander	The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
1972	Donald Barthelme	The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn
1973	Ursula K. Le Guin	Najdalszy brzeg (The Farthest Shore)
1974	Eleanor Cameron	The Court of the Stone Children
1975	Virginia Hamilton	M.C. Higgins the Great
1980 Hardcover	Joan Blos	A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal
1980 Paperback	Madeleine L’Engle	A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Książki dla dzieci, literatura piękna

1981 Hardcover	Betsy Byars	The Night Swimmers
1981 Paperback	Beverly Cleary	Ramona and Her Mother
1982 Hardcover	Lloyd Alexander	Westmark
1982 Paperback	Ouida Sebestyen	Words by Heart
1983 Hardcover	Jean Fritz	Homesick: My Own Story
1983 Paperback	Paula Fox	A Place Apart
1983 Paperback	Joyce Carol Thomas	Marked by Fire

Książki dla dzieci, niefikcyjne

1981 Hardcover	Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence	Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies
1982	Susan Bonners	A Penguin Year
1983	James Cross Giblin	Chimney Sweeps

Książki dla dzieci, Książki obrazkowe

1982 Hardcover	Maurice Sendak	Outside Over There
1982 Paperback	Peter Spier	Noah's Ark
1983 Hardcover	Barbara Cooney	Miss Rumphius
1983 Hardcover	William Steig	Doctor DeSoto
1983 Paperback	Mary Ann Hoberman i Betty Fraser (il.)	A House is a House for Me

Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (Medal za wybitny wkład w literaturę amerykańską)

„Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters” (DCAL) jest nagroda przyznwaną za życiowe osiągnięcia. Medalowi towarzyszy nagroda w wysokości 10 tys. dolarów. Laureat/ka „wzbogacił/a dorobek literatury amerykańskiej poprzez swoje życie lub poprzez swoje dzieła”.

• 1991 – Eudora Welty
• 1992 – James Laughlin
• 1993 – Clifton Fadiman
• 1994 – Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1995 – David McCullough
• 1996 – Toni Morrison
• 1997 – Studs Terkel
• 1998 – John Updike
• 1999 – Oprah Winfrey
• 2000 – Ray Bradbury
• 2001 – Arthur Miller
• 2002 – Philip Roth
• 2003 – Stephen King
• 2004 – Judy Blume
• 2005 – Norman Mailer
• 2006 – Adrienne Rich
• 2007 – Joan Didion
• 2008 – Maxine Hong Kingston
• 2009 – Gore Vidal
• 2010 – Tom Wolfe
• 2011 – John Ashbery
• 2012 – Elmore Leonard
• 2013 – E.L. Doctorow
• 2014 – Ursula K. Le Guin
• 2015 – Don DeLillo
• 2016 – Robert Caro
• 2017 – E. Annie Proulx
• 2018 – Isabel Allende
• 2019 – Edmund White
• 2020 – Walter Mosley
• 2021 – Karen Tei Yamashita
• 2022 – Art Spiegelman

Literarian Award

„Literarian Award” jest nagrodą za dorobek całego życia. Przyznawana jest „jednostce za wybitne zasługi dla amerykańskiej społeczności literackiej, której życie i praca wyrażają cele National Book Foundation, tj. powiększanie rzesz odbiorców literatury i podnoszenie rangi literatury w Ameryce”.

• 2005 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• 2006 – Robert B. Silvers i Barbara Epstein
• 2007 – Terry Gross
• 2008 – Barney Rosset
• 2009 – Dave Eggers
• 2010 – Joan Ganz Cooney
• 2011 – Mitchell Kaplan
• 2012 – Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
• 2013 – Maya Angelou
• 2014 – Kyle Zimmer
• 2015 – James Patterson
• 2016 – Cave Canem
• 2017 – Richard Robinson
• 2018 – Doron Weber
• 2019 – Oren J. Teicher
• 2020 – Carolyn Reidy
• 2021 – Nancy Pearl
• 2022 – Tracie D. Hall

Linki zewnętrzne

• Strona oficjalna National Book Awards