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General fiction for adult readers is a national book award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. Oct 14, 2015 national book award finalists are announced. Oct 06, 2016 last month, the new yorker announced the longlists for the 2016 national book awards in the categories of young peoples literature, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Lauren groff, hanya yanagihara and tanehisi coates are among the finalists for this years national book awards. Nov 16, 2017 at the national book awards on wednesday night, jesmyn ward won her second national book award for her novel sing, unburied, sing, about a black family on an odyssey of sorts in rural mississippi. The sibert medal honors the authors and illustrators of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year. The panelists are five writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field.
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