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The first africanamerican writer to win a national book award was ralph ellison for invisible man. Click on the award name to show winners and nominees. Colson whitehead won the national book award for fiction on wednesday night for the underground railroad, a hallucinatory novel about the horrors of american slavery and the sinister. A fifth category, the national book award for translated literature, was added in 2018, recognizing works in translation for the first time since 1983. This week, the national book foundation revealed the writers who are still in contention for its literary prize. This week, the new yorker has been announcing the longlists for the 2016 national book awards. National book awards 1975 national book foundation.
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