National Book Awards 2025 – The nonprofit is the latest literary giant to make clear that citizenship is not a prerequisite to making great American art. . Since their inauguration in 1950, the National Book Awards have set a lofty goal: to celebrate the best writing in America. And for most of the awardsโ history, American literature was defined as .
National Book Awards 2025 National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards: Beginning this year, authors who maintain their primary, long-term home in the U.S., U.S. territories, or Tribal lands, in addition to those with U.S. citizenship, will be eligible for consideration . The authors, editors, illustrators, and translators of 35 books across the literary and non-literary divisions are recognized at the awards ceremony .