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Winners of the 2012 national outdoor book awards noba. Established in 1950, the national book awards are american literary prizes. The winners of the 2019 national book awards have been announced. Nov 20, 2019 susan choi won the national book award for fiction on wednesday night for trust exercise, a novel set in the 1980s at a competitive performing arts school, where two students fall in love. The national book award for translated literature was inaugurated in 2018 for fiction or nonfiction, where both author and translator were alive at the beginning of the awards cycle.
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