The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. From 1987 they are administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".
General fiction was one of four categories when the awards were re-established in 1950. For s...
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The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. From 1987 they are administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".
General fiction was one of four categories when the awards were re-established in 1950. For several years beginning 1980, prior to the Foundation, there were multiple fiction categories: Hardcover; Paperback; First Novel or First Work of Fiction; from 1981 to 1983 hardcover and paperback Children's Fiction; and only in 1980 five awards to mystery fiction, science fiction, and western fiction. When the Foundation celebrated the 60th postwar awards in 2009, all but three of the 77 previous winners in fiction categories were in print. The 77 included all eight 1980 winners but excluded the 1981 to 1983 children's fiction winners. The...
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