National Book Award Nominees 2024 Pdf. The national book foundation has announced the 2024 recipients of the prestigious national book awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in american literature. The winners of the 75th national book awards—given every year in young people’s literature, translation, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction—will be announced next week.

Hundreds attended the 2024 national book awards, but despite the tuxedos, gowns and lofty gilded ceilings, the 75th annual ceremony felt more intimate than stuffy. Each year, the national book award finalists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature gather the evening before the national book awards ceremony.