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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 1950-2003 SHIRLEY HAZZARD |
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The National Book Awards are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens. The number of prizes awarded has varied including categories such as fiction, biography, science, philosophy, religion and history. The Awards for Fiction are given below.
| 2003 | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire |
| 2002 | Julia Glass | Three Junes |
| 2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections |
| 2000 | Susan Sontag | In America |
| 1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting |
| 1998 | Alice McDermott | Charming Billy |
| 1997 | Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain |
| 1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories |
| 1995 | Phillip Roth | Sabbath's Theater |
| 1994 | William Gladdis | Frolic of His Own |
| 1993 | E. Anne Proulx | The Shipping News |
| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses |
| 1991 | Norman Rush | Mating |
| 1990 | Charles Johnson | Middle Passage |
| 1989 | John Casey | Spartina |
| 1988 | Pete Dexter | Paris Trout |
| 1987 | Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story |
| 1986 | E.L. Doctorow | World's Fair |
| 1985 | Don DeLillo | White Noise |
| 1984 | Ellen Gilchrist | Victory Over Japan |
| 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| 1982 | John Updike | Rabbit Is Rich |
| 1981 | Wright Morris | Plains Song |
| 1980 | William Styron | Sophie's Choice |
| 1979 | Tim O'Brien | Going After Cacciato |
| 1978 | Mary Lee Settle | Blood Ties |
| 1977 | Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird |
| 1976 | William Gaddis | J.R. |
| 1975 | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
| 1975 | Thomas Williams | The Hair of Harold Roux |
| 1974 | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
| 1974 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories |
| 1973 | John Barth | Chimera |
| 1972 | Flannery O'Connor | The Complete Stories |
| 1971 | Saul Bellow | Mr. Sammler's Planet |
| 1970 | Joyce Carol Oates | Them |
| 1969 | Jerzy Kosinski | Steps |
| 1968 | Thorton Wilder | The Eighth Day |
| 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer |
| 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | The Collected Stories |
| 1965 | Saul Bellow | Herzog |
| 1964 | John Updike | The Centaur |
| 1963 | J.F. Powers | Morte D'Urban |
| 1962 | Walker Percy | The Movie Goer |
| 1961 | Conrad Richter | The Waters of Kronos |
| 1960 | Phillip Roth | Good-bye, Columbus |
| 1959 | Bernard Malamud | The Magis Barrel |
| 1958 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle |
| 1957 | Wright Morris | The Field of Vision |
| 1956 | John O'Hara | Ten North Frederick |
| 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable |
| 1954 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
| 1953 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| 1952 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity |
| 1951 | William Faulkner | The Collected Stories |
| 1950 | Nelson Algren | The Man With the Golden Arm |
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