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On Wednesday, November 19, the 76th slate of National Book Award winners was announced at a ceremony in New York City. Below, check out PW's takes on the prize winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to ...

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The book by Omar El Akkad stems from a viral tweet. A book about Jewish refugees won the young people’s literature award. A provocative essay collection about the West’s response to the Gaza war and a ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

Omar El Akkad at the Portland Book Festival. (Henry Cromett / Courtesy of the Portland Book Festival) Portland author Omar El Akkad won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for One Day, Everyone ...

When author Rabih Alameddine accepted his National Book Award for Fiction on Wednesday night, he thanked his agent, his editor and early readers of his work. He also thanked his psychiatrist, his drug ...