National Book Award (Narodowa Nagroda Książkowa) – jedna z najbardziej prestiżowych nagród literackich w Stanach Zjednoczonych, ustanowiona w 1936 przez Amerykańskie Stowarzyszenie Księgarzy (American Booksellers Association). Od 1950 otrzymują je autorzy amerykańscy za wydaną w danym roku publikację. Od 1988 nagrodami zajmuje się .
Nagrody są przyznawane obecnie w 4 kategoriach: literatura piękna, literatura faktu, poezja i literatura młodzieżowa.
Laureaci są wybierani w każdej kategorii przez 5 osobowe, niezależne, eksperckie jury. Zwycięzcy i zdobywcy drugiego miejsca są ogłaszani w listopadzie na specjalnych The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner (ceremonia i obiad). Zwycięzca otrzymuje 10 tys. dolarów, następny nagrodzony (runner-up) 1 tys.
Zwycięzcy National Book Awards Bieżące kategorie Literatura piękna 1950 Nelson Algren 1951 William Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner1952 James Jones Stąd do wieczności (From Here to Eternity)1953 Ralph Ellison Niewidzialny człowiek (Invisible Man)1954 Saul Bellow Przypadki Augiego Marcha (The Adventures of Augie March)1955 William Faulkner Przypowieść (A Fable)1956 John O’Hara 1957 Wright Morris 1958 John Cheever Kronika Wapshotów (The Wapshot Chronicle)1959 Bernard Malamud Żydoptak (The Magic Barrel)1960 Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus1961 1962 Walker Percy Kinoman (The Moviegoer)1963 J.F. Powers Morte D’Urban1964 John Updike Centaur (The Centaur)1965 Saul Bellow Herzog (Herzog)1966 Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter1967 Bernard Malamud Fachman (The Fixer)1968 Thornton Wilder The Eighth Day1969 Jerzy Kosiński Kroki (Steps)1970 Joyce Carol Oates Oni (Them)1971 Saul Bellow Planeta pana Sammlera (Mr. Sammler’s Planet)1972 Flannery O’Connor The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor1973 John Barth Chimera1973 John Edward Williams Augustus1974 Thomas Pynchon Tęcza grawitacji (Gravity’s Rainbow)1974 Isaac Bashevis Singer Korona z piór (A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories)1975 Robert Stone Dog Soldiers1975 Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux1976 William Gaddis J R1977 The Spectator Bird1978 Blood Ties1979 Tim O’Brien W pogoni za Cacciatem (Going After Cacciato)1980 Hardcover William Styron Wybór Zofii (Spohie’s Choice)1980 Paperback John Irving Świat według Garpa (The World According to Garp)1981 Hardcover Wright Morris Plains Song1981 Paperback John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever1982 Hardcover John Updike Jesteś bogaty, Króliku (Rabbit is Rich)1982 Paperback So Long, See You Tomorrow1983 Hardcover Alice Walker Kolor purpury (The Color Purple)1983 Paperback Eudora Welty Collected Stories of Eudora Welty1984 Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories1985 Don DeLillo Biały szum (White Noise)1986 E.L. Doctorow Wystawa światowa (World’s Fair)1987 Paco’s Story1988 Pete Dexter Paris Trout1989 John Casey Spartina1990 Charles Johnson Middle Passage1991 Norman Rush Mating1992 Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses)1993 Annie Proulx Kroniki portowe (The Shipping News)1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own1995 Philip Roth Teatr Sabata (Sabbath’s Theater)1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories1997 Charles Frazier Zimna Góra (Cold Mountain)1998 Charming Billy1999 Waiting2000 Susan Sontag W Ameryce (In America)2001 Jonathan Franzen Korekty (The Corrections)2002 Three Junes2003 Shirley Hazzard 2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay2005 William Vollmann Europe Central2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker2007 Denis Johnson Drzewo dymu (Tree of Smoke)2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country2009 Collum McCann Niech zawiruje świat (Let the Great World Spin)2010 Lord of Misrule2011 Jesmyn Ward Zbieranie kości (Salvage the Bones)2012 2013 The Good Lord Bird2014 Redeployment2015 Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles: Stories2016 Colson Whitehead Kolej podziemna. Czarna krew Ameryki (The Underground Railroad)2017 Jesmyn Ward Śpiewajcie, z prochów, śpiewajcie (Sing, Unburied, Sing)2018 Sigrid Nunez Przyjaciel (Friend)20192020Ucieczka z Chinatown (Interior Chinatown)2021Hell of a Book2022Królikarnia (The Rabbit Hutch)2023Blackouts2024Percival EverettJames2025Rabih AlameddineThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Literatura faktu 1950 Ralph Waldo Emerson (artykuł o R.W. Emersonie)1951 Herman Melville (artykuł o Hermanie Melville’u)1952 Rachel Carson Morze wokół nas (The Sea Around Us)1953 1954 1955 The Measure of Man1956 An American in Italy1957 George F. Kennan 1958 (artykuł o Edwardzie Coke’u)1959 Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Staël (biografia Madame de Staël)1960 James Joyce (artykuł o Jamesie Joyce)1961 William L. Shirer Powstanie i upadek III Rzeszy (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich)1962 The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects1963 Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years1984 Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 (artykuł o Andrew Jacksonie)1985 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families1986 Arktyczne marzenia (Arctic Dreams)1987 Richard Rhodes Jak powstała bomba atomowa (The Making of the Atom Bomb)1988 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (artykuł o )1989 Thomas L. Friedman 1990 The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance1991 Freedom1992 1993 Gore Vidal United States: Essays 1952–19921994 Jak umieramy. Refleksje na temat ostatnich chwil naszego życia (How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter)1995 Kraje, w których straszy. Europa Środkowa w obliczu upiorów komunizmu (The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism)1996 James P. Carroll An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us1997 1998 1999 2000 W samym sercu morza. Katastrofa statku wielorybniczego Essex (In the Heart of the Sea. The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex)2001 Anatomia depresji. Demon w środku dnia (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)2002 Robert A. Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson2003 Carlos Eire Czekając na śnieg w Hawanie: Wyznania kubańskiego chłopca (Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy)2004 2005 Joan Didion Rok magicznego myślenia (The Year of Magical Thinking)2006 Brudne lata trzydzieste. Opowieści o wielkich burzach pyłowych (The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl)2007 (Legacy of Ashes: The History of The CIA)2008 2009 2010 Patti Smith (Just Kids)2011 Stephen Greenblatt (The Swerve: How the World Became Modern)2012 Katherine Boo Zawsze piękne. Życie, śmierć i nadzieja w slumsach Bombaju (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity)2013 (The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America)2014 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me)2016 Ibram X. Kendi 2017 Masha Gessen Będzie to, co było. Jak totalitaryzm odradza się w Rosji (The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia)2018 2019 (The Yellow House)2020Tamara Payne, 2021 (All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake)2022South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation2023The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History2024Jason De LeónSoldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling2025Omar El AkkadOne Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This
Poezja 1950 William Carlos Williams Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems1951 Wallace Stevens 1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems1953 Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems, 1917–19521954 Conrad Aiken Collected Poems1955 Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens1956 W.H. Auden The Shield of Achilles1957 Richard Wilbur 1958 Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems, 1954–19561959 Theodore Roethke 1960 Robert Lowell Life Studies1961 Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo1962 Poems1963 Traveling Through the Dark1964 Selected Poems1965 Theodore Roethke 1966 James Dickey Buckdancer's Choice: Poems1967 James Merrill Nights and Days1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take1972 Frank O’Hara The Collected Works of Frank O’Hara1972 Selected Poems1973 A.R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951–19711974 Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–19721974 Allen Ginsberg The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965–19711975 Presentation Piece1976 John Ashbery Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930–19761978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov1979 James Merrill Mirabell: Book of Numbers1980 Philip Levine Ashes1981 The Need to Hold Still1982 Life Supports: New and Collected Poems1983 Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems1984 Selected Poems1985 Nagrody nie przyznano1986 Nagrody nie przyznano1987 Nagrody nie przyznano1988 Nagrody nie przyznano1989 Nagrody nie przyznano1990 Nagrody nie przyznano1991 Philip Levine 1992 Mary Oliver New & Selected Poems1993 A.R. Ammons Garbage1994 A Worshipful Company of Fletchers1995 Stanley Kunitz Passing Through: The Later Poems1996 Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey1997 Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems1998 This Time: New and Selected Poems1999 Ai Vice: New & Selected Poems2000 Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–20002001 Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry2002 In the Next Galaxy2003 The Singing2004 Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–20032005 W.S. Merwin Migration: New & Selected Poems2006 Splay Anthem2007 2008 Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems2009 Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy2010 Lighthead2011 Head Off & Split2012 Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations2013 Incarnadine2014 Louise Glück 2015 2016 2017 2018 Indecency20192020DMZ Colony2021Floaters2022Punks: New and Selected Poems2023from incorporated territory (åmot)2024Lena Khalaf TuffahaSomething About Living2025Patricia Smith The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Literatura młodzieżowa 1996 Victor Martinez Parrott In the Oven: MiVida1997 Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge1998 Doły (Holes)1999 2000 Bezdomny ptak (Homeless Bird)2001 True Believer2002 Nancy Farmer Dom Skorpiona (The House of the Scorpion)2003 2004 Godless2005 Rodzina Penderwicków (The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy)2006 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I2007 Absolutnie prawdziwy pamiętnik (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian)2008 2009 2010 Mockingbird2011 Inside Out and Back Again2012 Goblin Secrets2013 The Thing About Luck2014 Jacqueline Woodson 2015 Neal Shusterman Głębia Challengera (Challenger Deep)2016 John Lewis, , March: Book Three2017 Far from the Tree2018 2019Martin W. Sandler1919 The Year that Changed America20202021Ostatniej nocy w klubie Telegraph (Last Night at the Telegraph Club) 2022Cały mój gniew (All My Rage)2023A First Time for Everything2024Shifa Saltagi Safadi Kareem Between2025Daniel NayeriThe Teacher of Nomad Land: World War II Story
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