National Book Award

El National Book Award (en español, "Premio Nacional del Libro") es uno de los más prestigiosos premios literarios que se conceden en Estados Unidos. Establecido en 1950, este galardón recompensa obras literarias publicadas durante el año anterior al de su concesión en diferentes categorías (ficción, no ficción, poesía y literatura infantil). En el pasado se han concedido premios en otras categorías que en la actualidad han desaparecido. Se premia también a autores por el conjunto de su trayectoria con los galardones "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" y "Literarian Award".

Los ganadores de cada categoría son seleccionados por un jurado de cinco miembros, y su decisión se hace pública durante una ceremonia que se realiza cada año en el mes de noviembre. El ganador recibe un premio de 10.000 dólares en metálico, y una escultura de cristal.

Ganadores del National Book Award

Categorías actualmente existentes

Ficción

1950	Nelson Algren	El hombre del brazo de oro
1951	William Faulkner	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952	James Jones	De aquí a la eternidad
1953	Ralph Ellison	El hombre invisible
1954	Saul Bellow	Las aventuras de Augie March
1955	William Faulkner	Una fábula
1956	John O'Hara	Ten North Frederick
1957	Wright Morris	The Field of Vision
1958	John Cheever	Crónica de los Wapshot
1959	Bernard Malamud	El barril mágico
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	El reparador
1968	Thornton Wilder	The Eighth Day
1969	Jerzy Kosinski	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	Quimera
1973	John Edward Williams	Augustus (traducida como El hijo de César)
1974	Thomas Pynchon	Arco iris de gravedad
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 Tie
1979	Tim O'Brien	Going After Cacciato
1980 Hardcover	William Styron	La decisión de Sophie
1980 Paperback	John Irving	El mundo según 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	El color púrpura
1983 Paperback	Eudora Welty	Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1984	Ellen Gilchrist	Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1985	Don DeLillo	Ruido de fondo
1986	E.L. Doctorow	World's Fair
1987	Larry Heinemann	Paco's Story
1988	Pete Dexter	Paris Trout
1989	John Casey	Spartina
1990	Charles R. Johnson	Middle Passage
1991	Norman Rush	Mating
1992	Cormac McCarthy	Todos los hermosos caballos
1993	E. Annie Proulx	Atando cabos
1994	William Gaddis	Su pasatiempo favorito
1995	Philip Roth	El teatro de Sabbath
1996	Andrea Barrett	Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997	Charles Frazier	Monte frío
1998	Alice McDermott	Un hombre con encanto
1999	Ha Jin	La espera
2000	Susan Sontag	En América
2001	Jonathan Franzen	Las correcciones
2002	Julia Glass	Tres junios
2003	Shirley Hazzard	El gran incendio
2004	Lily Tuck	Noticias desde Paraguay
2005	William Vollmann	Europa Central
2006	Richard Powers	The Echo Maker
2007	Denis Johnson	Tree of Smoke
2008	Peter Matthiessen	Shadow Country
2009	Colum McCann	Let the Great World Spin (Que el vasto mundo siga girando)
2010	Jaimy Gordon	Lord of Misrule

No ficción

1950	Ralph L. Rusk	Ralph Waldo Emerson
1951	Newton Arvin	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 (artículo sobre Edward Coke)
1959	J. Christopher Herold	Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël
1960	Richard Ellmann	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
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
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	L'année de la pensée magique
2006	Timothy Egan	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2007	Tim Weiner	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2009	T. J. Stiles	The First Tycoon
2010	Patti Smith	Eramos unos niños 2011 Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve Poesía 1950 William Carlos Williams Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems 1951 Wallace Stevens The Auroras of Autumn 1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems 1953 Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems, 1917-1952 1954 Conrad Aiken Collected Poems 1955 Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens 1956 W.H. Auden The Shield of Achilles 1957 Richard Wilbur Things of This World 1958 Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 1959 Theodore Roethke Words for the Wind 1960 Robert Lowell Life Studies 1961 Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo 1962 Alan Dugan Poems 1963 William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark 1964 John Crowe Ransom Selected Poems 1965 Theodore Roethke The Far Field 1966 James Dickey Buckdancer's Choice 1967 James Merrill Nights and Days 1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body 1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest 1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems 1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take 1972 Frank O'Hara The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara 1972 Howard Moss Selected Poems 1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951-1971 1974 Allen Ginsberg The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 1974 Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 1975 Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece 1976 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror 1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1976 1978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov 1979 James Merrill Mirabell: Book of Numbers 1980 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old 1981 Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still 1982 William Bronk Life Supports: New and Collected Poems 1983 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems 1984 Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems 1985 No se concedió 1986 No se concedió 1987 No se concedió 1988 No se concedió 1989 No se concedió 1990 No se concedió 1991 Philip Levine What Work Is 1992 Mary Oliver New & Selected Poems 1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage 1994 James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers 1995 Stanley Kunitz Passing Through: The Later Poems 1996 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey 1997 William Meredith Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems 1998 Gerald Stern This Time: New and Selected Poems 1999 Ai Vice: New & Selected Poems 2000 Lucille Clifton Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 2001 Alan Dugan Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry 2002 Ruth Stone In the Next Galaxy 2003 C. K. Williams The Singing 2004 Jean Valentine Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 2005 W. S. Merwin Migration: New & Selected Poems 2006 Nathaniel Mackey Splay Anthem 2007 Robert Hass Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 Literatura juvenil 1996 Víctor Martínez Parrott In the Oven: MiVida 1997 Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge 1998 Louis Sachar Holes 1999 Kimberly Willis Holt When Zachary Beaver Came to Town 2000 Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird 2001 Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer 2002 Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion 2003 Polly Horvath The Canning Season 2004 Pete Hautman Godless 2005 Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy 2006 Matthew Tobin Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I 2007 Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Categorías actualmente desaparecidas Referencias Enlaces externos Sitio web oficial de los National Book Awards (en inglés) فروشگاه کتاب ,خرید کتاب