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Beating out an unusually competitive field, louise erdrich won the national book award for fiction on wednesday night for the round house, a novel about a teenage boys. The longlist for the 2016 national book award in poetry includes two other previous nominees monica youn and kevin young, as well as a past. Diaz and caro among finalists for national book award the. Modern first edition points online reference guide national. Among the finalists are five pulitzer prize winners, two recipients of macarthur genius grants, one previous national book award winner, three.
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Novel about racial injustice wins national book award. Oct 04, 2017 the national book foundation winnowed the list of contenders for its literary prize to just 20 or five finalists each in four categories. Jesmyn ward and david grann among finalists for national. National book awards, annual awards given to books of the highest quality written by americans and published by american publishers. Sep, 2016 the longlist for the 2016 national book award in poetry includes two other previous nominees monica youn and kevin young, as well as a past poet laureate and pulitzer prizewinner rita dove.
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