- National Book Award
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Der National Book Award (NBA) ist neben dem Pulitzer-Preis der renommierteste Literaturpreis der USA.
Er wird seit 1950 jährlich vergeben; zurzeit in den vier Kategorien Roman, Lyrik, Kinderbuch und Sachbuch. Zuvor gab es eine Anzahl weiterer Kategorien, die aber nach und nach aufgegeben wurden. Weiterhin werden jährlich zwei Preise für das Lebenswerk vergeben, die Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters und der Literarian Award. Zwischen 1980 und 1986 wurde der Preis unter der Bezeichnung American Book Award verliehen, seit 1989 wird der NBA von der eigens zu diesem Zweck gegründeten National Book Foundation verliehen. Für jede Kategorie gibt es eine fünfköpfige unabhängige Jury.
Der Preisträger muss amerikanischer Staatsbürger sein; sein Werk muss in englischer Sprache verfasst und in den USA verlegt sein. Der Preis ist mit 10.000 US-Dollar dotiert.
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Preisträger
Kategorie Prosa (Fiction)
1950 Nelson Algren The Man With The Golden Arm 1951 William Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner 1952 James Jones From Here to Eternity 1953 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man, dt. Der unsichtbare Mann 1954 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March 1955 William Faulkner A Fable 1956 John O’Hara Ten North Frederick 1957 Wright Morris The Field of Vision 1958 John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle 1959 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barre 1960 Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus 1961 Conrad Richter The Waters of Kronos 1962 Walker Percy The Moviegoer 1963 J. F. Powers Morte D'Urban 1964 John Updike The Centaur 1965 Saul Bellow Herzog 1966 Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter 1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer 1968 Thornton Wilder The Eighth Day 1969 Jerzy Kosinski Steps 1970 Joyce Carol Oates Them 1971 Saul Bellow Mr. Sammler's Planet 1972 Mary Flannery O’Connor The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor 1973 John Barth Chimera 1973 John Williams Augustus 1974 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (letztlich nicht verliehen) 1974 Isaac Bashevis Singer A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories 1975 Robert Stone Dog Soldiers 1975 Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux 1976 William Gaddis JR 1977 Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird 1978 Mary Lee Settle Blood Ties 1979 Tim O’Brien Going After Cacciato 1980 Hardcover William Styron Sophie's Choice 1980 Paperback John Irving The World According to Garp, dt. Garp und wie er die Welt sah 1981 Hardcover Wright Morris Plains Song 1981 Paperback John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever 1982 Hardcover John Updike Rabbit is Rich 1982 Paperback William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow 1983 Hardcover Alice Walker 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 White Noise 1986 E. L. Doctorow World's Fair 1987 Larry Heinemann Paco's Story 1988 Pete Dexter Paris Trout 1989 John Casey Spartina 1990 Charles Richard Johnson Middle Passage 1991 Norman Rush Mating 1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses 1993 Annie Proulx The Shipping News 1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own 1995 Philip Roth Sabbath's Theater 1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories 1997 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain 1998 Alice McDermott Charming Billy 1999 Ha Jin Waiting 2000 Susan Sontag In America 2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections 2002 Julia Glass Three Junes 2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire 2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay 2005 William T. Vollmann Europe Central 2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker 2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke 2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country 2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin 2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule Kategorie Sachbuch (Nonfiction)
1950 Ralph L. Rusk Ralph Waldo Emerson 1951 Newton Arvin Herman Melville 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 1959 J. Christopher Herold Misterss to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael 1960 Richard Ellmann James Joyce 1961 William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, dt. Aufstieg und Fall des Dritten Reiches 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 1964 Aileen Ward John Keats: The Making of a Poet 1964 William H. McNeill The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community 1964 Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev Man-made America 1965 Eleanor Clark Oysters of Lockmariaquer 1965 Louis Fischer The Life of Lenin 1965 Norbert Wiener God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion 1966 Janet Flanner Paris Journal, 1944–1965 1966 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr A Thousand Days 1967 Justin Kaplan Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography 1967 Peter Gay The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism 1967 Oscar Lewis La Vida 1968 William Troy Selected Essays 1968 George F. Kennan Memoirs: 1925–1950 1968 Jonathan Kozol Death at an Early Age 1969 Norman Mailer The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History 1969 Winthrop D. Jordan White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812 1969 Robert J. Lifton Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima … … … 1980 Hardcover Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff 1980 Paperback Peter Matthiessen 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 1984 Robert V. Remini Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulate 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 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 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 Waleship 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, dt. Das Jahr magischen Denkens 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 Kategorie Lyrik (Poetry)
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 the 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 Howard Moss Selected Poems 1972 Frank O'Hara The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara 1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951–1971 1974 Allen Ginsberg The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965–1971 1974 Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972 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 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems 1983 Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems 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 Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry 2001 Alan Dugan Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 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 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 Kategorie Jugendbuch (Young People's Literature)
1996 Victor Martinez Parrott In the Oven: MiVida 1997 Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge 1998 Louis Sachar Holes, dt. Löcher 1999 Kimberly Willis Holt When Zachary Beaver Came to Town 2000 Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird 2001 Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer 2002 Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion 2003 Polly Horvath The Canning Season 2004 Pete Hautman Godless 2005 Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks 2006 Matthew Tobin Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party 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 Kategorie Kinderbuch
1969 Meindert DeJong Journey from Peppermint Street 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 The Farthest Shore 1974 Eleanor Cameron The Court of the Stone Children 1975 Virginia Hamilton M. C. Higgins the Great 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 The Great Gilly Hopkins 1980 Hardcover Joan W. Blos A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1980 Paperback Madeleine L’Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet 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 Kategorie Bilderbuch
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 De Soto 1983 Paperback Mary Ann Hoberman & Betty Fraser (ill.) A House is a House for Me Siehe auch
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