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The national book awards honor fiction, nonfiction, poetry and childrens books. Apr, 2017 the national book award has gone to hell. Struggle of our time, by james kilgore the new press, september 2015. Tanehisi coates has won the national book awards top prize for nonfiction for his bestselling.
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