National Book Awards

Le National Book Award est l'une des distinctions littéraires les plus pretigieuses des États-Unis. Décernées pour la première fois en 1950, les récompenses (awards) sont remises chaque année aux écrivains américains pour récompenser une de leurs œuvres publiées l'année précédent la remise des prix.

Lauréats

Fiction

1950	Nelson Algren	L'Homme au bras d'or
1951	William Faulkner	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952	James Jones	From Here to Eternity
1953	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man
1954	Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March
1955	William Faulkner	A Fable
1956	John O'Hara	Ten North Frederick
1957	Wright Morris	The Field of Vision
1958	John Cheever	The Wapshot Chronicle
1959	Bernard Malamud	The Magic Barrel
1960	Philip Roth	Goodbye, Columbus
1961	Conrad Richter	The Waters of Kronos
1962	Walker Percy	The Moviegoer
1963	J. F. Powers	Morte D'Urban
1964	John Updike	The Centaur
1965	Saul Bellow	Herzog
1966	Katherine Anne Porter	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967	Bernard Malamud	The Fixer
1968	Thornton Wilder	The Eighth Day
1969	Jerzy Kosiński	Steps
1970	Joyce Carol Oates	them
1971	Saul Bellow	Mr. Sammler's Planet
1972	Flannery O'Connor	The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
1973	John Barth	Chimera
1973	John Edward Williams	Augustus
1974	Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow
1974	Isaac Bashevis Singer	A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1975	Robert Stone	Dog Soldiers
1975	Thomas Williams	The Hair of Harold Roux
1976	William Gaddis	J R
1977	Wallace Stegner	The Spectator Bird
1978	Mary Lee Settle	Blood Ties
1979	Tim O'Brien	Going After Cacciato
1980 Hardcover	William Styron	Le Choix de Sophie
1980 Paperback	John Irving	Le Monde selon Garp
1981 Hardcover	Wright Morris	Plains Song
1981 Paperback	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever
1982 Hardcover	John Updike	Rabbit is Rich
1982 Paperback	William Maxwell	So Long, See You Tomorrow
1983 Hardcover	Alice Walker	La couleur pourpre
1983 Paperback	Eudora Welty	Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1984	Ellen Gilchrist	Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1985	Don DeLillo	White Noise
1986	E. L. Doctorow	World's Fair
1987	Larry Heinemann	Paco's Story
1988	Pete Dexter	Paris Trout
1989	John Casey	Spartina
1990	Charles Johnson	Middle Passage
1991	Norman Rush	Mating
1992	Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses
1993	E. Annie Proulx	The Shipping News
1994	William Gaddis	A Frolic of His Own
1995	Philip Roth	Sabbath's Theater
1996	Andrea Barrett	Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997	Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain
1998	Alice McDermott	Charming Billy
1999	Ha Jin	Waiting
2000	Susan Sontag	In America
2001	Jonathan Franzen	The Corrections
2002	Julia Glass	Three Junes
2003	Shirley Hazzard	The Great Fire
2004	Lily Tuck	The News from Paraguay
2005	William Vollmann	Europe Central
2006	Richard Powers	The Echo Maker

Non fiction

1950	Ralph L. Rusk	Ralph Waldo Emerson (article sur Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1951	Newton Arvin	Herman Melville (article sur Herman Melville)
1952	Rachel Carson	The Sea Around Us
1953	Bernard A. De Voto	The Course of Empire
1954	Bruce Catton	A Stillness at Appomattox
1955	Joseph Wood Krutch	The Measure of Man
1956	Herbert Kubly	An American in Italy
1957	George F. Kennan	Russia Leaves the War
1958	Catherine Drinker Bowen	The Lion and the Throne (article sur Edward Coke)
1959	J. Christopher Herold	Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël
1960	Richard Ellmann	James Joyce (article sur James Joyce}
1961	William L. Shirer	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1962	Lewis Mumford	The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
1963	Leon Edel	Henry James Vol. II & III
1969	Norman Mailer	Les armées de la nuit
1984	Robert V. Remini	Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (article sur Andrew Jackson)
1985	J. Anthony Lukas	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1986	Barry Lopez	Arctic Dreams
1987	Richard Rhodes	The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1988	Neil Sheehan	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (article sur John Paul Vann)
1989	Thomas L. Friedman	From Beirut to Jerusalem
1990	Ron Chernow	The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
1991	Orlando Patterson	Freedom
1992	Paul Monette	Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
1993	Gore Vidal	United States: Essays 1952-1992
1994	Sherwin B. Nuland	How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
1995	Tina Rosenberg	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 Us
1997	Joseph J. Ellis	American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
1998	Edward Ball	Slaves in the Family]
1999	John W. Dower	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2000	Nathaniel Philbrick	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
2001	Andrew Solomon	The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
2002	Robert A. Caro	Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2003	Carlos Eire	Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
2004	Kevin Boyle	Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
2005	Joan Didion	The Year of Magical Thinking
2006	Timothy Egan	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre

• 1991 - Eudora Welty
• 1992 - James Laughlin
• 1993 - Clifton Fadiman
• 1994 - Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1995 - David McCullough
• 1996 - Toni Morrison
• 1997 - Studs Terkel
• 1998 - John Updike
• 1999 - Oprah Winfrey
• 2000 - Ray Bradbury
• 2001 - Arthur Miller
• 2002 - Philip Roth
• 2003 - Stephen King
• 2004 - Judy Blume
• 2005 - Norman Mailer
• 2006 - Adrienne Rich

Liens externes

• Site officiel (en)
• Lauréats du National Book Award par année (fr)