National Book Award: Winners, Finalists and Longlisted Titles

National Book Award Medals

The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America. National Book Awards are given five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.

Here we highlight the winners of African descent. The first African-American writer to win a National Book Award was Ralph Ellison, in 1953, for Invisible Man.

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4 Books Honored by the National Book Foundation in 2011

Winner - Fiction

Winner - Poetry

Finalist - Nonfiction

Finalist - Poetry

The Chameleon Couch: Poems
by Yusef Komunyakaa

    List Price: $24.00
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Mar 15, 2011)
    Poetry, Hardcover, 128 pages
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