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The longlisted authors have earned recognition from numerous other prizes, including the bancroft prize, the national magazine award, the pulitzer prize, the national book critics. 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. This year there were 1,115 total submissions for the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young peoples literature. National book award for nonfiction, winners and finalists. The national book foundation has announced the 20 finalists for the 2017 national book award in fiction, nonfiction, young peoples literature and poetry.
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