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Sep 12, 2025 - Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award; shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel...

Oct 1, 2025 - Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award Finalist; Nigeria Jones, a Coretta Scott King Book Award...

Oct 21, 2025 - Michelle Zauner is a musician and author based in New York City. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for her albums Psychopomp...

Jan 23, 2026 - The Foundation's mission is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.

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Nov 20, 2025 - Browse National Book Awards honorees, from to the first ceremony in 1950 to the present.

Sep 30, 2025 - Jazmina Barrera is a Mexican writer and member of the Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. She is the author of five books in Spanish, including...

Oct 10, 2025 - Meet the staff of the National Book Foundation.

Sep 30, 2025 - Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the...

Oct 1, 2025 - Patricia Smith is an inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She is...

Sep 9, 2025 - Hannah V. Sawyerr was recognized as the Youth Poet Laureate of Baltimore in 2016. Her spoken word has been featured on the BBC’s World Have Your...

Nov 24, 2025 - Where young readers meet and interview their literary heroes. Every year, Teen Press Conference brings the excitement and prestige of the National Book Awards...

Sep 30, 2025 - Maria van Lieshout was born and raised near Amsterdam, where she spent many weekends in the Museum Quarter row house where her grandparents lived with her...

Nov 13, 2025 - Each year, the Finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature gather the evening before the National Book...

Oct 1, 2025 - Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of four poetry collections: The New Economy; Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry;...

Sep 10, 2025 - Helen Whybrow is the author of A Man Apart and Dead Reckoning. She is also the editor of the anthologies Hearth and Coming to Land in a Troubled World. Her...

Sep 30, 2025 - Lana Lin is a writer, artist, and filmmaker based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured...

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Sep 30, 2025 - Natalie Shapero is the author of the poetry collections Popular Longing, Hard Child, and No Object. Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books,...

Sep 12, 2025 - Susan Choi is the author of Trust Exercise, which received the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as the novels The Foreign Student, American Woman, A...