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Oct 06, 2016 the new yorker presents the 2016 national book awards finalists, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young peoples literature. An elite few have won the award more than once, including bellow, faulkner, and updike and 2017s winner jesmyn ward who won her first national book award in 2011. In addition, six of the twenty books were published by small, independent, or university presses. National book awards for nonfiction the national book awards are given annually by the national book foundation, an organization of publishers.
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