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The national book critics circle announced its 2019 award winners, and the winners of three additional prizes. Author of the poet x, elizabeth acevedo accepts the 2018 national book award for young peoples literature. The prestigious literary awards for the best englishlanguage books published in the u. Nbcc, regarded as one of the most prestigious awards in the industry, recognizes excellence in six different categories every year. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young peoples literature. Mar 16, 2015 the national book critics circle awards dont have quite the same public cachet as the national book awards, but they often give exemplary books a shot at recognition they didnt receive from the national book awards. Caros series also won the book critics circle award, and the third volume was a finalist. The nbcc will still deliberate on march 12 to choose this years. The national book award has gone to hell no thrill once a literary prize more prestigious than the pulitzer, the national book award has. The 2016 national book awards finalists the new yorker.
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