National Book Award -kirjallisuuspalkinto

National Book Award on yksi Yhdysvaltojen merkittävimmistä kirjallisuuspalkinnoista. Palkintoja jaetaan vuosittain parhaille amerikkalaisille kirjailijoille. Palkintoja jaetaan neljässä kategoriassa: fiktio, tietokirjallisuus, runot ja nuortenkirjallisuus. Lisäksi jaetaan elämäntyöpalkintoja kirjailijoille ja kirjallisuusihmisille.

Jokaiselle kategorialle on oma viisijäseninen asiantuntijaraatinsa, joka valitsee voittajat. Voittajat saavat palkinnoksi pronssipatsaan ja 10 000 dollaria. Palkintoa jakaa vuonna 1988 perustettu National Book Foundation, ensimmäiset palkinnot jaettiin kuitenkin jo vuonna 1950.

Fiktiosarjan voittajat

2023: Justin Torres: Blackouts
2022: Tess Gunty: The Rabbit Hutch
2021: Jason Mott: Hell of a Book
2020: Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown
2019: Susan Choi: Trust Exercise
2018: Sigrid Nunez: The Friend
2017: Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing
2016: Colson Whitehead: Maanalainen rautatie
2015: Adam Johnson: Fortune Smiles: Stories
2014: Phil Klay: Redeployment
2013: James McBride: The Good Lord Bird
2012: Louise Erdrich: The Round House
2011: Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones
2010: Jaimy Gordon: Lord of Misrule
2009: Colum McCann: Let the Great World Spin
2008: Peter Matthiessen: Shadow Country
2007: Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke
2006: Richard Powers: Muistin kaiku
2005: William Vollmann: Europe Central
2004: Lily Tuck: The News from Paraguay
2003: Shirley Hazzard: The Great Fire
2002: Julia Glass: Three Junes
2001: Jonathan Franzen: Muutoksia
2000: Susan Sontag: In America
1999: Ha Jin: Waiting
1998: Alice McDermott: Hurmaava mies
1997: Charles Frazier: Päämääränä Cold Mountain
1996: Andrea Barrett: Ship Fever and Other Stories
1995: Philip Roth: Sabbath’s Theater
1994: William Gaddis: A Frolic of His Own
1993: E. Annie Proulx: Laivauutisia
1992: Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
1991: Norman Rush: Mating
1990: Charles Johnson: Middle Passage
1989: John Casey: Spartina
1988: Pete Dexter: Mies nimeltä Paris Trout
1987: Larry Heinemann: Paco’s Story
1986: E.L. Doctorow: Maailmannäyttely
1985: Don DeLillo: Valkoinen kohina
1984: Ellen Gilchrist: Paratiisin pilvinen reuna
1983: Eudora Welty: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (pokkari)
1983: Alice Walker: Häivähdys purppuraa (kovakantinen)
1982: William Maxwell: So Long, See You Tomorrow (pokkari)
1982: John Updike: Autokauppiaan unelmat (kovakantinen)
1981: Wright Morris: Plains Song: For Female Voices (kovakantinen)
1981: John Cheever: The Stories of John Cheever (suom. Mahdoton radio ja muita kertomuksia, Hyvästi, veljeni : kertomuksia) (pokkari)
1980: William Styron: Sofien valinta (kovakantinen)
1980: John Irving: Garpin maailma (pokkari)
1979: Tim O’Brien: Going After Cacciato
1978: Mary Lee Settle: Blood Tie
1977: Wallace Stegner: The Spectator Bird
1976: William Gaddis: J R
1975: Thomas Williams: The Hair of Harold Roux
1975: Robert Stone: Epäonnen soturit
1974: Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow
1974: Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1973: John Edward Williams: Augustus
1973: John Barth: Chimera
1972: Flannery O’Connor: Palava kehä
1971: Saul Bellow: Mr Sammlerin planeetta
1970: Joyce Carol Oates: them
1969: Jerzy Kosinski: Askelia
1968: Thornton Wilder: Kahdeksas päivä
1967: Bernard Malamud: Tuomittu
1966: Katherine Anne Porter: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1965: Saul Bellow: Herzog
1964: John Updike: The Centaur
1963: J. F. Powers: Morte d’Urban
1962: Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
1961: Conrad Richter: The Waters of Kronos
1960: Philip Roth: Hyvästi, Columbus
1959: Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel
1958: John Cheever: The Wapshot Chronicle
1957: Wright Morris: The Field of Vision
1956: John O’Hara: Kiihko ja kunnia
1955: William Faulkner: A Fable
1954: Saul Bellow: Augie Marchin kiemurat
1953: Ralph Ellison: Näkymätön mies
1952: James Jones: Täältä ikuisuuteen
1951: William Faulkner: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1950: Nelson Algren: Kultainen käsi

Fiktiosarjan finalistit:

2023: Hanna Pylväinen: The End of Drum-Time: A Novel, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Chain-Gang All-Stars, Aaliyah Bilal: Temple Folk, Paul Harding: This Other Eden
2022: Gayl Jones: The Birdcatcher, Jamil Jan Kochai: The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, Sarah Thankam Mathews: All This Could Be Different, Alejandro Varela: The Town of Babylon
2021: Anthony Doerr: Taivaanrannan taa, Lauren Groff: Mestarinna, Laird Hunt: Zorrie, Robert Jones, Jr.: The Prophets
2020: Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind, Lydia Millet: A Children’s Bible, Deesha Philyaw: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain
2019: Kali Fajardo-Anstine: Sabrina & Corina: Stories, Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Laila Lalami: The Other Americans, Julia Phillips: Disappearing Earth
2018: Jamel Brinkley: A Lucky Man, Lauren Groff: Florida, Brandon Hobson: Where the Dead Sit Talking, Rebecca Makkai: The Great Believers
2017: Elliot Ackerman: Dark at the Crossing, Lisa Ko: The Leavers, Min Jin Lee: Pachinko, Carmen Maria Machado: Kahdeksan puraisua
2016: Chris Bachelder: The Throwback Special, Paulette Jiles: News of the World, Karan Mahajan: The Association of Small Bombs, Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn
2015: Karen Bender: Refund: Stories, Lauren Groff: Fates and Furies, Angela Flournoy: The Turner House, Hanya Yanagihara: Pieni elämä
2014: Rabih Alameddine: An Unnecessary Woman, Anthony Doerr: Kaikki se valo jota emme näe, Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven, Marilynne Robinson: Lila
2013: Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers, Jhumpa Lahiri: Tulvaniitty, Thomas Pynchon: Bleeding Edge, George Saunders: Joulukuun kymmenes
2012: Junot Díaz: This Is How You Lose Her, Dave Eggers: A Hologram for the King, Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Kevin Powers: The Yellow Birds
2011: Andrew Krivak: The Sojourn, Téa Obreht: Tiikerin vaimo, Julie Otsuka: The Buddha in the Attic, Edith Pearlman: Binocular Vision,
2010: Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss: Great House, Lionel Shriver: Jonnekin pois, Karen Tei Yamashita: I Hotel
2009: Bonnie Jo Campbell: American Salvage, Daniyal Mueenuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Jayne Anne Phillips: Kiuru ja termiitti, Marcel Theroux: Far North
2008: Aleksandar Hemon: The Lazarus Project, Rachel Kushner: Telex from Cuba, Marilynne Robinson: Kotiin, Salvatore Scibona: The End
2007: Mischa Berlinski: Fieldwork, Lydia Davis: Varieties of Disturbance, Joshua Ferris: Then We Came to the End, Jim Shepard: Like You’d Understand, Anyway
2006: Mark Z. Danielewski: Only Revolutions, Ken Kalfus: A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, Dana Spiotta: Eat the Document, Jess Walter: The Zero
2005: E.L. Doctorow: Marssi, Mary Gaitskill: Veronica, Christopher Sorrentino: Trance, Rene Steinke: Holy Skirts
2004: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: Madeleine is Sleeping, Christine Schutt: Florida, Joan Silber: Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories, Kate Walbert: Our Kind
2003: T.C. Boyle: Hatka City, Edward P. Jones: The Known World, Scott Spencer: A Ship Made of Paper, Marianne Wiggins: Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel
2002: Mark Costello: Big If, Adam Haslett: You Are Not a Stranger Here, Martha McPhee: Gorgeous Lies, Brad Watson: The Heaven of Mercury
2001: Dan Chaon: Among the Missing, Jennifer Egan: Look at Me, Louise Erdrich: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Susan Straight: Highwire Moon
2000: Charles Baxter: The Feast of Love, Alan Lightman: The Diagnosis, Joyce Carol Oates: Blondi, Francine Prose: Blue Angel
1999: Andre Dubus III: House of Sand and Fog, Kent Haruf: Tasangon laulu, Patricia Henley: Hummingbird House, Jean Thompson: Who Do You Love,
1998: Allegra Goodman: Kaaterskill Falls, Gayl Jones: The Healing, Robert Stone: Damascus Gate, Tom Wolfe: Täysi mies
1997: Don DeLillo: Alamaailma, Diane Johnson: Divorce : Avioero ranskalaiseen tapaan, Ward Just: Echo House, Cynthia Ozick: The Puttermesser Papers
1996: Ron Hansen: Atticus, Elizabeth McCracken: The Giant’s House, Steven Millhauser: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Janet Peery: The River Beyond the World
1995: Madison Smartt Bell: All Souls’ Rising, Edwidge Danticat: Krik? Krak!, Stephen Dixon: Interstate, Rosario Ferré: The House on the Lagoon
1994: Ellen Currie: Moses Supposes, Richard Dooling: White Man’s Grave, Howard Norman: The Bird Artist, Grace Paley: The Collected Stories
1993: Amy Bloom: Come to Me: Stories, Thom Jones: The Pugilist at Rest, Richard Powers: Operation Wandering Soul, Bob Shacochis: Swimming in the Volcano
1992: Dorothy Allison: Bastard Out of Carolina, Cristina Garcia: Dreaming in Cuban, Edward P. Jones: Lost in the City, Robert Stone: Outerbridge Reach
1991: Louis Begley: Wartime Lies, Stephen Dixon: Frog, Stanley Elkin: The MacGuffin, Sandra Scofield: Beyond Deserving
1990: Felipe Alfau: Chromos, Elena Castedo: Paradise, Jessica Hagedorn: Dogeaters, Joyce Carol Oates: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
1989: E.L. Doctorow: Gangsterin oppipoika, Katherine Dunn: Petomaista rakkautta, Oscar Hijuelos: Mambo Kings : Rakkauden rytmit, Amy Tan: Ilon ja onnen tarinat,
1988: Don DeLillo: Vaaka, Mary McGarry Morris: Vanished, J. F. Powers: Wheat That Springeth Green, Anne Tyler: Hengitysharjoituksia
1987: Alice McDermott: That Night, Toni Morrison: Minun kansani, minun rakkaani, Howard Norman: Revontulet, Philip Roth: Käänteiselämää
1986: Norman Rush: Whites, Peter Taylor: A Summons to Memphis
1985: Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home, Hugh Nissenson: Maailmanpatsas
1984: Alison Lurie: Ulkomaansuhteita, Philip Roth: Anatomian oppitunti
1983 (pokkari): David Bradley: The Chaneysville Incident, Mary Gordon: Naisten kesken, Marilynne Robinson: Talonhaltijat, Robert Stone: Ennen aamunkoittoa,
1983 (kovakantinen): Gail Godwin: Äiti ja kaksi tytärtä, Bobbie Ann Mason: Vaeltaja ja muita kertomuksia, Paul Theroux: Moskiittorannikko, Anne Tyler: Päivällinen Koti-ikävän ravintolassa
1982 (pokkari): E.L. Doctorow: Kuikkajärvi, Shirley Hazzard: The Transit of Venus, Walker Percy: The Second Coming, Anne Tyler: Morgan’s Passing
1982 (kovakantinen): Mark Helprin: Ellis Island and Other Stories, John Irving: Kaikki isäni hotellit, Robert Stone: Ennen aamunkoittoa, William Wharton: Isä
1981 (pokkari): Thomas Flanagan: The Year of the French, Norman Mailer: Pyövelin laulu, Scott Spencer: Mieletön rakkaus, Herman Wouk: Sodan muisto
1981 (kovakantinen): Shirley Hazzard: The Transit of Venus, William Maxwell: So Long, See You Tomorrow, Walker Percy: The Second Coming, Eudora Welty: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1980 (pokkari): Paul Bowles: Collected Stories, Gail Godwin: Violet Clay, John Updike: Too Far to Go, Marguerite Young: Miss MacIntosh: My Darling, Volumes 1 and 2
1980 (kovakantinen): James Baldwin: Just Above My Head, Norman Mailer: Pyövelin laulu, Philip Roth: Haamukirjailija, Scott Spencer: Mieletön rakkaus
1979: John Cheever: The Stories of John Cheever (suom. Mahdoton radio ja muita kertomuksia, Hyvästi, veljeni : kertomuksia), John Irving: Garpin maailma, Diane Johnson: Lying Low, David Plante: The Family,
1978: Robert Coover: The Public Burning, Peter De Vries: Madder Music, James Alan McPherson: Elbow Room, John Sayles: Union Dues
1977: Raymond Carver: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, MacDonald Harris: The Balloonist, Ursula K. Le Guin: Orsinian Tales, Cynthia Propper Seton: A Fine Romance
1976: Saul Bellow: Humboldtin lahja, Hortense Calisher: The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher, Johanna Kaplan: Other People’s Lives, Vladimir Nabokov: Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories, Larry Woiwode: Beyond the Bedroom Wall
1975: Donald Barthelme: Guilty Pleasures, Gail Godwin: The Odd Woman, Joseph Heller: Jotakin on tapahtunut, Toni Morrison: Sula, Vladimir Nabokov: Look at the Harlequins!, Grace Paley: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Philip Roth: Miehen muotokuva, Mark Smith: The Death of a Detective
1974: Doris Betts: Beasts of the World and Other Stories, John Cheever: The World of Apples, Ellen Douglas: Apostles of Light, Stanley Elkin: Searches and Seizures, John Gardner: Nikkelivuori, John Leonard: Black Conceit, Thomas McGuane: Ninety-Two in the Shade, Wilfrid Sheed: People Will Always Be Kind, Gore Vidal: Burr, Joy Williams: State of Grace
1973: Brock Brower: The Late Great Creature, Alan H. Friedman: Hermaphrodeity, Barry Hannah: Geronimo Rex, George V. Higgins: Eddien ystävät, R.M. Koster: The Prince, Vladimir Nabokov: Läpinäkyväisiä, Ishmael Reed: Mumbo Jumbo, Thomas Rogers: The Confessions of a Child of the Century, Isaac Bashevis Singer: Vihassa ja rakkaudessa, Eudora Welty: Optimistin tytär
1972: Frederick Buechner: Lion Country, E.L. Doctorow: Danielin kirja, Stanley Elkin: The Dick Gibson Show, Tom McHale: Farragan’s Retreat, Joyce Carol Oates: Wonderland, Cynthia Ozick: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories, Walker Percy: Love in the Ruins, Earl Thompson: A Garden of Sand, John Updike: Amerikkalainen tarina
1971: James Dickey: Syvä joki, Shirley Hazzard: The Bay of Noon, John Updike: Bech: A Book, Eudora Welty: Losing Battles
1970: Leonard Gardner: Fat City, Leonard Michaels: Going Places, Jean Stafford: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Teurastamo no 5
1969: John Barth: Lost in the Funhouse, Frederick Exley: A Fan’s Notes, Joyce Carol Oates: Expensive People, Thomas Rogers: The Pursuit of Happiness
1968: Norman Mailer: Why Are We in Vietnam?, Joyce Carol Oates: A Garden of Earthly Delights, Chaim Potok: The Chosen, William Styron: Confessions of Nat Turner
1967: Louis Auchincloss: The Embezzler, Edwin O’Connor: All in the Family, Walker Percy: The Last Gentleman, Harry Petrakis: A Dream of Kings, Wilfrid Sheed: Office Politics
1966: Jesse Hill Ford: The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, Peter Matthiessen: At Play in the Fields of the Lord, James Merrill: The (Diblos) Notebook, Flannery O’Connor: Everything That Rises Must Converge, Harry Petrakis: Pericles on 31st Street
1965: Louis Auchincloss: The Rector of Justin, John Hawkes: Second Skin, Richard E. Kim: The Martyred, Wallace Markfield: To an Early Grave, Vladimir Nabokov: The Defense, Isaac Bashevis Singer: Short Friday
1964: Bernard Malamud: Idiots First, Mary McCarthy: The Group, Thomas Pynchon: V., Harvey Swados: The Will
1963: Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire, Katherine Anne Porter: Ship of Fools, Dawn Powell: The Golden Spur, Clancy Sigal: Going Away, John Updike: Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
1962: Hortense Calisher: False Entry, George P. Elliott: Among the Dangs, Joseph Heller: Catch-22, Bernard Malamud: A New Life, William Maxwell: The Chateau, J.D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey, Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories, Edward Lewis Wallant: The Pawnbroker, Joan Williams: The Morning and the Evening, Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road
1961: Louis Auchincloss: The House of Five Talents, Kay Boyle: Generation Without Farewell, John Hersey: The Child Buyer, John Knowles: A Separate Peace, Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird, Wright Morris: Ceremony in Lone Tree, Flannery O’Connor: The Violent Bear It Away, Elizabeth Spencer: The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales, Francis Steegmuller: The Christening Party, John Updike: Rabbit, Run, Mildred Walker: The Body of a Young Man
1960: Louis Auchincloss: Pursuit of the Prodigal, Hamilton Basso: The Light Infantry Ball, Saul Bellow: Henderson the Rain King, Evan S. Connell, Jr.: Mrs. Bridge, William Faulkner: The Mansion, Mark Harris: Wake Up, Stupid, John Hersey: The War Lover, H.L. Humes: Men Die, Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House, Elizabeth Janeway: The Third Choice, James Jones: The Pistol, Warren Miller: The Cool World, James Purdy: Malcolm, Leo Rosten: The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (2nd of two short story collections; see 1937), John Updike: The Poorhouse Fair, Robert Penn Warren: The Cave, Morris West: The Devil’s Advocate
1959: J.P. Donleavy: The Ginger Man, William Humphrey: Home from the Hill, Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita, John O’Hara: From the Terrace, J.R. Salamanca: The Lost Country, Anya Seton: The Winthrop Woman, Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Murder
1958: James Agee: A Death in the Family, James Gould Cozzens: By Love Possessed, Mark Harris: Something About a Soldier, Andrew Lytle: The Velvet Horn, Bernard Malamud: The Assistant, Wright Morris: Love Among the Cannibals, Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin, Ayn Rand: Kun maailma järkkyi, Nancy Wilson Ross: The Return of Lady Brace, May Sarton: The Birth of a Grandfather
1957: Nelson Algren: A Walk on the Wild Side, James Baldwin: Giovanni’s Room, Saul Bellow: Seize the Day, B.J. Chute: Greenwillow, A.B. Guthrie: These Thousand Years, John Hersey: A Single Pebble, John Hunt: Generations of Men, Edwin O’Connor: The Last Hurrah, J.F. Powers: The Presence of Grace, Elizabeth Spencer: The Voice at the Back Door, James Thurber: Further Fables for Our Time
1956: Paul Bowles: The Spider’s House, Shirley Ann Grau: The Black Prince, and Other Stories, MacKinlay Kantor: Andersonville, Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find, May Sarton: Faithful Are the Wounds, Robert Penn Warren: Band of Angels, Eudora Welty: The Bride of the Innisfallen, Herman Wouk: Marjorie Morningstar
1955: Harriette Arnow: The Dollmaker, Hamilton Basso: The View from Pompey’s Head, Davis Grubb: The Night of the Hunter, Randall Jarrell: Pictures from an Institution, Milton Lott: The Last Hunt, Frederick Manfred: Lord Grizzly, William March: The Bad Seed, Wright Morris: The Huge Season, Frank Rooney: The Courts of Memory, John Steinbeck: Sweet Thursday
1954: Ei finalisteja.
1953: Isabel Bolton: Many Mansions, H.L. Davis: Winds of Morning, Thomas Gallagher: The Gathering Darkness, Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea, Carl Jonas: Jefferson Selleck, Peter Martin: The Landsman, May Sarton: A Shower of Summer Days, Jean Stafford: The Catherine Wheel, John Steinbeck: Eedenistä itään, William Carlos Williams: The Build-Up
1952: James Agee: The Morning Watch, Truman Capote: The Grass Harp, William Faulkner: Requiem for a Nun, Caroline Gordon: The Strange Children, Thomas Mann: The Holy Sinner, John P. Marquand: Melville Goodwin USA, J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, William Styron: Lie Down in Darkness, Jessamyn West: The Witch Diggers, Herman Wouk: The Caine Mutiny
1951: Ei finalisteja.
1950: Ei finalisteja.

William Weaverin käännös Italo Calvinon Kosmokomiikasta voitti nyt jo lakkautetun käännössarjan vuonna 1969.

Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters -elämäntyöpalkinnon saaneista Kirjavinkeissä esiintyvät: