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Jul 14, 2017 prize season continues with the finalists for this years national book awards. Categories include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young peoples literature, translated literature, and the medal for distinguished contribution to american letters 2019 winners. Check out this list of winning titles from the young peoples lit category. The 2016 national book awards finalists the new yorker. Following athina rachel tsangari s lff best film win for chevalier in 2015 the film was subsequently picked up for uk distribution, while kelly reichardt s win for certain women in 2016 led to a retrospective and. National book award winning childrens books for young peoples literature the national book award recognizes outstanding books by u. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young peoples literature. This years winners included david brion davis for the problem of slavery in the. The twoway the authors won the literary prize in the fiction and nonfiction categories, respectively.
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