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The National Book Foundation The National Book Foundation and BAM present award-winning children's and young adult author Jacqueline Woodson and illustrator Hudson Talbott. National Book Awards Finalists and Winners shelf-talkers will be mailed out immediately, upon request. Based on Woodson’s own family history, the book connects eight generations, from slavery to the civil rights movement to the present, as told through Show Ways–quilts that serve as secret guides to freedom–revealing the continuity of one family's experience. www.nationalbook.org   (337 words)

FrontPage magazine.com :: Political Prize: The National Book Award by George Shadroui Until the mid 1960s, it could be argued, the National Book Awards, a much heralded and sought after honor, was a fair recognition of great writing across different perspectives and genres — poetry, fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. But increasingly since the 1960s, the awards have been an exercise in political as much as literary judgment. An article by Fox Butterfield (himself a National Book Award winner) that appeared in the Prestigious awards mean more attention, resources, and venues for discussing history, and ultimately more notoriety, which means greater book sales, more readers and more power in the debate over ideas. www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12453   (2512 words)

Lily Tuck wins National Book Award While all winners were warmly applauded, controversy over the National Book Awards was incendiary this year in the literary world, as many writers and critics lambasted the obscurity of the finalists in fiction, usually the most prestigious awards category. The awards, now in their 55th year, were sponsored by the National Book Foundation (www. A novel set in 19th-century Paraguay, a work of history about an early civil rights struggle and a children's story about a boy's religious faith were among the winners last night at the National Book Awards. seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/200153_bookawards18.html   (879 words)

Boston.com / A&E / Books / Tuck wins National Book Award New York-based writer Lily Tuck Wednesday night won the 2004 National Book Award for her historical novel of Latin America, ''The News From Paraguay." In nonfiction, the prize was awarded to Kevin Boyle for ''Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age," an account of the trial... The award, given by the National Book Foundation and largely funded by publishers, includes a $10,000 cash prize. Book Group, reportedly told The New York Times that the industry was ''supporting our demise" by sponsoring the competition. www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/11/19/tuck_wins_national_book_award   (288 words)

CBC Arts: Didion wins U.S. National Book Award Didion also praised her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, for supporting her as she wrote the book, which booksellers have said is especially in demand for those who have recently lost a loved one. The night also included the presentation of an honourary award to the 82-year-old Norman Mailer, who had to be helped to the stage but, once there, gave a strong speech decrying the decline of literature. During the writing of the book, the couple's only daughter was also gravely ill and died. www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/11/17/Arts/US_bookaward_051117.html   (562 words)

National Book Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Book Awards Annals - National Book Award winners and finalists In 1981, Children's Books, Fiction was called Children's Book, Fiction; and in 1983 it was called Children's Fiction. Over the years, awards in several categories have been retired or subsumed into other categories. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Book_Award   (784 words)

Online NewsHour: The National Book Award for Poetry -- November 18, 1999 JIM LEHRER: The National Book awards were announced last night in New York. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The winner for poetry this year is known as Ai, a Japanese word meaning "love." She won the award for Vice, a book of new and selected poems, many of them dramatic monologues. Awards were given for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec99/ai_nba_11-18.html   (1039 words)

The New York Times > Books > Literary Prize for Judy Blume, Confidante to Teenagers The foundation, a publishing industry organization that sponsors the National Book Awards, has sought in recent years to raise the profile of its awards, which are well known among the literary set but less so among readers of popular titles. It's Me, Margaret," "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and "Freckle Juice," among others, is the first author of books written primarily for children to receive the medal, which has been awarded for 16 years. It is expected to be announced today and to be presented in November, along with the foundation's annual awards for the best books in four categories: young people's literature, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. www.nytimes.com /2004/09/15/books/15AWAR.html?ex=1252987200&en=68c9407046d7a007&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (577 words)

Big names up for National Book Award - The Boston Globe Wellesley College poet Frank Bidart and Harvard literature professor Leo Damrosch are among the finalists for a 2005 National Book Award. Given by the National Book Foundation, the $10,000 awards will be announced at a New York dinner Nov. 16. The list of this year's finalists in several categories for the National Book Award is dominated by distinguished names. www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/10/13/big_names_up_for_national_book_award   (445 words)

9-11 Commission Report is a  Finalist for the National Book Award Once the judges are given their charge and given their books, the National Book Foundation leaves it up to them to decide the process of selecting the books, the criteria of selecting the books. Harold Augenbraum is executive director of the National Book Foundation, which sponsors the yearly honors. All that we ask is that they limit themselves to the eligible books that were nominated by the publishers, and that they look for literary merit in the books. www.voanews.com /english/AmericanLife/2004-10-18-voa50.cfm   (815 words)

JBooks.com - Interviews and Profiles: Honoring Jewish Literature The National Jewish Book Awards have been honoring notable works for more than 50 years, gaining status as a mark of excellence in both secular and religious communities. Though the awards officially started in 1948, their origins stem from a Jewish book week that began in the mid ’20s. The Jewish Book Council (which is a partner of JBooks.com), developed as an outgrowth of the book month under the Jewish Welfare Board, a rabbinical association established to help Jewish servicemen. www.jbooks.com /interviews/index/IP_Hirsh_NJBA.htm   (755 words)

2002 National Book Award Winners Announced Prior to the awards announcement, the National Book Foundation presented the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to author Philip Roth. On the National Book Foundation Web site, NBA nominees discussed the book that changed their lives, and each attendee received a paperback, The Book That Changed My Life (Modern Library, for the National Book Foundation), edited by Diane Osen, which features authors such as James Carroll and E.L. Doctorow discussing the books that influenced them. Books are like these amazing objects, that transmute themselves into something completely different when you read them-- they could be a sailing vessel … a tree house … or a friend that tells you the facts of life too early and all wrong." news.bookweb.org /m-bin/printer_friendly?article_id=970   (838 words)

National Book Award finalists announced The National Book Awards, which is in some ways the literary equivalent of the Oscars, tends to go for more high-profile titles and better-known writers than other awards, such as those presented by the National Book Critics Circle. The National Book Foundation, which administers the awards, says there is a precedent for a government report being nominated: Attica, The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission, was a finalist in 1973. The finalists for the 2004 National Book Awards include five little-known New York-based women writers—and, especially surprising to industry observers, the 9/11 Commission. www.newyorkbusiness.com /news.cms?id=9018   (387 words)

Children's Literature: The National Book Award On March 15, 1950, a consortium of book publishing groups sponsored the first annual National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Their goal was to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional books written by fellow Americans, and to increase the popularity of reading in general. And the oversized book, designed by Edward Miller, is chock full of interesting black-and-white photographs. www.childrenslit.com /th_nbfaward.html   (1439 words)

CNN.com - 9/11 report nominated for book award - Oct 13, 2004 The National Book Awards will be presented in New York on November 17. The book, which has sold in excess of 1 million copies, is one of the five nonfiction finalists. The "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States," as it is formally known, was published by W.W. Norton in an authorized edition. www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/books/10/13/nat.book.awards   (402 words)

National Book Award - LibrarySpot.com Awards One of the nation's most prestigious literary prizes, the National Book Award is given by the National Book Foundation. The awards are given in four categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young people's literature. Click here for a list of winners from 1950 to the present. www.libraryspot.com /lists/national.htm   (76 words)

MSN Encarta - National Book Awards National Book Awards, annual literary award presented since 1950 for the best American book published in the preceding year, in each of four... Become a subscriber today and gain access to: encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557859/National_Book_Awards.html   (77 words)

USATODAY.com - National Book Award brings more than praise Of the 195,000 or so books published in the USA each year, only four win the $10,000 prize that comes with being a National Book Award winner. After the award, it reported orders for another 12,000 copies, big numbers for poetry. Children don't buy children's books, but adults do. www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-11-22-bchat-national-book-awards_x.htm   (432 words)

University professor named National Book Award finalist - News Each year five finalists are nominated for the National Book Award in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and youth literature, with the winners to be named at an awards ceremony in New York on Nov. 17. Washington University English professor Carl Phillips was recently named a National Book Award Finalist for his latest collection of poetry, "The Rest of Love: Poems," an exploration of themes of love and desire. Phillips has earned high regard in the literary community-he is already the recipient of a series of prestigious awards including the Morse Poetry Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Pushcart Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Academy of American Poets Prize. www.studlife.com /news/2004/11/03/News/University.Professor.Named.National.Book.Award.Finalist-791056.shtml   (506 words)

Controversy over US book award Judges of The National Book Awards have amended the fiction category to become a "Municipal Book Award" and the five short-listed authors are little known women writers who all live in New York. One of the biggest book awards in the US is the subject of controversy after a decision to change the fiction category. The short-listed books are: Florida by Christine Schutt, Our Kind: A Novel in Stories by Kate Walbert, The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck, Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and Ideas of Heaven: a Ring of Stories by Joan Silber. www.bibliofemme.com /news/121104.shtml   (1045 words)

The National Book Foundation The National Book Foundation proudly presents this medal and a $10,000 cash award from the Foundation's Board of Directors to Clifton Fadiman for his distinguished contribution to American letters. He can no longer read these books because his eyesight has failed him, but the Club sends him taped readings of these manuscripts, and he listens to them all and reports on them in the inimitable Fadiman style. With every book under discussion he offered reactions tinged with wit and humor and some skepticism. www.nationalbook.org /nbaacceptspeech_cfadiman_intro.html   (616 words)

Gothamist: 9/11 Commission Report Nominated For National Book Award Other National Book Award nominees can be found here; Gothamist found it interesting that all the fiction nominees were written by women living in New York City. The 9/11 Commission Report was nominated for a National Book Award today, making it only the second government study to be nominated (the first was about the prison riot at Attica). And Gothamist likes how Judy Blume is this year's National Book Award honoree. www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/10/13/911_commission_report_nominated_for_national_book_award.php   (455 words)

Charles Johnson: National Book Award Winner Such is the tale spun by UW English professor Charles Johnson in his novel, Middle Passage, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1990. Johnson was the first African-American male to win the National Book Award since Ralph Ellison in 1953. One of those, entitled "Booker," received the international 1985 Prix Jeunesse Award, a Writers Guild Award for outstanding script in the television category of children's shows. www.washington.edu /research/showcase/1977a.html   (389 words)

Stephen King Awarded National Book Foundation Award Hazzard, an Australian-born author who has been nominated for the National Book Award three times, used her time at the podium to address Mr. Stephen King, the prolific author of more than 50 books including The Shining, Carrie, and Salem's Lot, was honored with the National Book Foundation's 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King addressed those naysayers in his keynote speech, saying he always knew he was an outsider when it came to the great authors of his time, and he is tired of reviewers who refuse to take notice of contemporary authors who have mass appeal. www.voanews.com /article.cfm?objectID=25E60612-91EB-4721-A891957B5AEB10D8   (544 words)

The New York Times > Books > South America Epic Wins the National Book Award The National Book Foundation, a publishing industry organization that sponsors the awards, presented its annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Judy Blume, whose books have won legions of fans among children and young adults but have also been deemed by some parents as too frank for their children. Blume, whose books include "Freckle Juice" and the "Fudge" series, is the first author of books written primarily for children to receive the medal, which has been awarded for 16 years. Find more results for Books and Literature and Awards, Decorations and Honors www.nytimes.com /2004/11/18/books/18book.html?ex=1258520400&en=3c4637d837befc37&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (870 words)

National Business Book Award -- PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada The National Business Book Award (NBBA) was established in 1985 to recognize the outstanding talent in Canadian business writing. It is widely considered one of Canada's most prestigious English-language book awards. For the 2004 award, 41 submissions were received from Canada's leading journalists, authors and scholars. www.pwcglobal.com /extweb/aboutus.nsf/docid/734B254D5FE48ACC852570CA00175731   (122 words)

Tomfolio.com: Literature, National Book Award Finalist for the National Book and PEN/Faulkner awards. Finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award and for the National Book Award. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for fiction, and basis for the critically acclaimed film of the same name. www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=3804   (1160 words)

National Book Award Roth, who won the National Book Award for his first novel, "Goodbye, Columbus," remembered that evening more than four decades ago when he was in the company of two other winners, Robert Lowell and the biographer Richard Ellmann. Julia Glass received the National Book Award for Fiction for "Three Junes," her first novel, about a contemporary Scottish family. he National Book Award for Fiction went to a relatively unknown author, Julia Glass, last night for her first novel, "Three Junes" (Pantheon), the story of a contemporary Scottish family spread across three continents. www.lincoln-ma.com /independent/docpages/glass.htm   (623 words)

Yale Law School @YLS YLS Student Nominated for 2002 National Book Award Haslett's fellow nominees for the 2002 National Book Award are Mark Costello, for Big If; Julia Glass, for Three Junes; Martha McPhee, for Gorgeous Lies; and Brad Watson, for The Heaven of Mercury. In the biography of Adam Haslett provided by the National Book Foundation to announce his nomination for the 2002 National Book Award, one sentence stands out amidst a list of publications and writing fellowships: "He is currently a student at Yale Law School." Winners in each category (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature) will be announced at the National Book Award Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, November 20. www.law.yale.edu /outside/html/Public_Affairs/301/yls_article.htm   (262 words)

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