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The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award". The purpose of the awards is "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America. " In 1988 the National Book Foundation was established which now oversees and manages the National Book Awards. The National Book Foundation, founded 1988 is a non-profit American literary foundation established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America

Awards are given in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 Awards have been given in various other categories, which have since been retired or subsumed into the remaining categories.

The winners are selected in each category by an independent, expert and volunteer five-member judging panel. Panels typically look at and read hundreds of books in each category. A chair from each panel announces the runners-up and winner during the "The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner" held each year in November. The winners each receive a $10,000 cash prize and a crystal sculpture, finalists each receive $1,000. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been

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Winners of the National Book Awards

See List of Winners of the National Book Awards. The following is a complete list of winners of the National Book Awards.

Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

The "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" (DCAL) is a lifetime achievement award. The medal comes with $10,000. The recipient is a person who "has enriched American literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work. " [1]

Literarian Award

The "Literarian Award" is a lifetime achievement award. Eudora Alice Welty ( April 13 1909 &ndash July 23 2001) was an award-winning American Author and Photographer who wrote James Laughlin ( 30 October, 1914 – 12 November, 1997) was an American Poet and literary book publisher who founded Clifton Fadiman ( May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual Author, Radio and Television Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks ( June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an Pulitzer Prize- winning African-American Poet David Gaub McCullough (mə-kŭl'ə (born July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Born and raised in Pittsburgh McCullough later attended Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931 is a Nobel Prize -winning American author editor and professor Louis "Studs" Terkel (born May 16, 1912) is an American author, historian actor and broadcaster based in Chicago. John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American Novelist, Poet, Short story Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29 1954 often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920 is an American mainstream, Fantasy, horror, Science fiction and mystery Arthur Asher Miller (October 17 1915 &ndash February 10 2005 was an American Playwright and Essayist. Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark New Jersey) is an American novelist Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, Judy Blume (born Judy Sussman on February 12, 1938) is a popular American Author. Norman Kingsley Mailer ( January 31, 1923 &ndash November 10, 2007) was an American Novelist, Journalist, Adrienne Cecile Rich (born May 16 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet essayist and Feminist. Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American Journalist, Essayist and Novelist Didion contributes regularly to It is "presented to an individual for outstanding service to the American literary community, whose life and work exemplify the goals of the National Book Foundation to expand the audience for literature and to enhance the cultural value of literature in America. "[2]

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919) is an American Poet and painter, and the co-founder of Robert B Silvers (b December 31 1929 in Mineola New York) is editor of The New York Review of Books. Barbara Epstein ( August 30, 1928 – June 16 2006) was a literary editor and a founding co-editor of the New York Review Terry Gross (born 1951 is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview format Radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length Novel The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, is a leading award for fiction that The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given to the Author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year" The Costa Book Awards are among the United Kingdom 's most prestigious literary awards The Governor General's Awards are named in honour of the Governor General of Canada, and are presented in a number of fields A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of Writers and readers typically on an annual basis in a
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