
National Book Award - Fiction
National Book Award Winners – Fiction / 2007 - 1980
The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, they are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year. While historically there have been other categories, today the awards are made in four areas: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.
2007: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johynson
2006: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2005: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2004: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
2003: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2002: Three Junes by Julia Glass
2001: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2000: In America by Susan Sontag
1999: Waiting by Ha Jin
1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1997: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1995: Steps (Kosinski, Jerzy) by Phillip Roth
1994: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1993: Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1991: Mating by Norman Rush
1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989: Spartina by John Casey
1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987: Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann
1986: World’s Fair by E.L. Doctorow
1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo
1984: Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
1983: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
1982: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
1981: Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris
1981: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
1980: The World According to Garp by John Irving




