1968 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thornton Wilder |
The Eighth Day
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| Norman Mailer |
Why Are We in Vietnam?
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| Joyce Carol Oates |
A Garden of Earthly Delights
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| Chaim Potok |
The Chosen
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| William Styron |
The Confessions of Nat Turner
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Troy |
Selected Essays
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| R. P. Blackmur |
A primer of ignorance
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| Frank Conroy |
Stop-Time
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| Leonard B. Meyer |
Music, the arts, and ideas
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| M. L. Rosenthal |
The New Poets
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| Stanley Weintraub |
Beardsley
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National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| George F. Kennan |
Memoirs, 1925-1950
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| Henry W. Bragdon |
Woodrow Wilson: the academic years
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| Louis J. Halle |
Cold war as history
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| Roger Hilsman |
To move a nation
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| Nathan Silver |
Lost New York
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Bly |
The Light Around the Body
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| Denise Levertov |
The Sorrow Dance
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| W. S. Merwin |
The lice
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| Kenneth Rexroth |
The complete poems of Kenneth Rexroth
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| Louis Zukofsky |
A-12
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National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and Religion (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jonathan Kozol |
Death at an Early Age
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| Theodosius Dobzhansky |
The Biology of Ultimate Concern
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| John Kenneth Galbraith |
The New Industrial State
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| Susanne Katherina Langer |
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling
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| Lewis Mumford |
The Myth of the Machine
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Howard Hong |
Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, vol. 1
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| Edna Hong |
Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, vol. 1
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| Elaine Gottlieb |
The Manor
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| Joseph Singer |
The Manor
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| Richmond Lattimore |
The Odyssey of Homer
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| Douglass Parker |
The Congresswomen
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| Barbara Shelby Merello |
Mother and Son
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| Lesley Byrd Simpson |
Country judge
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| Arlene B. Werth |
The Deserted House
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