1974 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas Pynchon |
Gravity's Rainbow
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
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| Doris Betts |
Beasts of the southern wild and other stories
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| John Cheever |
The World of Apples
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| Ellen Douglas |
Apostles of light
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| Stanley Elkin |
Searches and Seizures
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| John Gardner |
Nickel mountain
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| John Leonard |
Black conceit
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| Thomas McGuane |
Ninety-two in the shade.
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| Wilfrid Sheed |
People will always be kind
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| Gore Vidal |
Burr
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| Joy Williams |
State of grace
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas Pynchon |
Gravity's Rainbow
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
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| Doris Betts |
Beasts of the southern wild and other stories
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| John Cheever |
The World of Apples
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| Ellen Douglas |
Apostles of light
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| Stanley Elkin |
Searches and Seizures
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| John Gardner |
Nickel mountain
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| John Leonard |
Black conceit
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| Thomas McGuane |
Ninety-two in the shade.
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| Wilfrid Sheed |
People will always be kind
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| Gore Vidal |
Burr
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| Joy Williams |
State of grace
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Pauline Kael |
Deeper into Movies
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| Daniel Aaron |
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War
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| W. H. Auden |
Forewords and Afterwords
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| Clarence Brown |
Mandelstam
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| Richard Ellmann |
Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations
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| B. H. Haggin |
A decade of music
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| Lillian Hellman |
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits
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| Edward Hoagland |
Walking the dead Diamond River
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| Lincoln Kirstein |
Elie Nadelman
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| Leonard B. Meyer |
Explaining music
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| Saul Steinberg |
The inspector
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| Kevin Starr |
Americans and the California dream, 1850-1915
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eleanor Cameron |
The Court of the Stone Children
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| Alice Childress |
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
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| Vera Cleaver |
The whys and wherefores of Littabelle Lee
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| Bill Cleaver |
The whys and wherefores of Littabelle Lee
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| Julia Cunningham |
The treasure is the rose
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| Bette Greene |
Summer of my German soldier
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| Kristin Hunter |
Guests in the promised land
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| E. L. Konigsburg |
A proud taste for scarlet and miniver
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| Norma Fox Mazer |
A Figure of Speech
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| F. N. Monjo |
Poor Richard in France
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| Harve Zemach |
Duffy and the Devil
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National Book Award for Biography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Leonard Clive |
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
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| Douglas Day |
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
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| Jack H. Adamson |
Sir Harry Vane: his life and times (1613-1662)
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| Harold F. Folland |
Sir Harry Vane: his life and times (1613-1662)
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| Robert V. Bruce |
Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude
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| Stephen F. Cohen |
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution; a political biography, 1888-1938
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| Lester G. Crocker |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Prophetic Voice, 1758-78 v. 2
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| Myra Friedman |
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
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| William Henry Harbaugh |
Lawyer's lawyer; the life of John W. Davis
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| Townsend Hoopes |
The Devil and John Foster Dulles
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| Louis Sheaffer |
O'Neill, Son and Artist
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| Kathryn Sklar |
Catharine Beecher; a study in American domesticity
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| Adam Ulam |
Stalin: The Man and His Era
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National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Murray Kempton |
The Briar Patch
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| Peter Davies |
The Truth About Kent State
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| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economics
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| Vivian Gornick |
In search of Ali Mahmoud
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| Walter Karp |
Indispensable enemies
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| Robert Jay Lifton |
Home from the war
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| Jessica Mitford |
Kind and usual punishment
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| Nora Sayre |
Sixties going on seventies
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| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
The Imperial Presidency
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| Robert Sherrill |
The Saturday Night Special and Other Guns
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National Book Award for Biography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Leonard Clive |
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
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| Douglas Day |
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
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| Jack H. Adamson |
Sir Harry Vane: his life and times (1613-1662)
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| Harold F. Folland |
Sir Harry Vane: his life and times (1613-1662)
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| Robert V. Bruce |
Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude
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| Stephen F. Cohen |
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution; a political biography, 1888-1938
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| Lester G. Crocker |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Prophetic Voice, 1758-78 v. 2
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| Myra Friedman |
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
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| William Henry Harbaugh |
Lawyer's lawyer; the life of John W. Davis
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| Townsend Hoopes |
The Devil and John Foster Dulles
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| Louis Sheaffer |
O'Neill, Son and Artist
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| Kathryn Sklar |
Catharine Beecher; a study in American domesticity
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| Adam Ulam |
Stalin: The Man and His Era
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National Book Award for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Leonard Clive |
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
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| Ray Allen Billington |
Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
The Americans, the democratic experience
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| Frank Burt Freidel |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Lawrence M. Friedman |
A history of American law
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| Frederic Lane |
Venice, a maritime republic
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| Edward Pessen |
Riches, class, and power before the Civil War
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| Richard Slotkin |
Regeneration through violence
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| Stephan Thernstrom |
The Other Bostonians, Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970
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| Robert C. Tucker |
Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality
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National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Maurice Natanson |
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks
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| Don S. Browning |
Generative Man: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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| Harvey Cox |
Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion
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| Erich Fromm |
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
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| Marjorie Grene |
Sartre
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| Trent Schroyer |
The Critique of Domination
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| Laurence Veysey |
The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth Century America
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| Frederic Wakeman |
History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
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| Harry Austryn Wolfson |
Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion
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| Larzer Ziff |
Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New World
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Allen Ginsberg |
The Fall of America: Poems of These States
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| Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
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| Hayden Carruth |
From snow and rock, from chaos
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| Evan S. Connell |
Points for a Compass Rose
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| Peter Everwine |
Collecting the Animals
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| Richard Hugo |
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
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| Donald Justice |
Departures
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| Eleanor Lerman |
Armed Love
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| Audre Lorde |
From a Land Where Other People Live
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| Alice Walker |
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
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| Charles Wright |
Hard Freight
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Allen Ginsberg |
The Fall of America: Poems of These States
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| Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
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| Hayden Carruth |
From snow and rock, from chaos
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| Evan S. Connell |
Points for a Compass Rose
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| Peter Everwine |
Collecting the Animals
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| Richard Hugo |
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
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| Donald Justice |
Departures
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| Eleanor Lerman |
Armed Love
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| Audre Lorde |
From a Land Where Other People Live
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| Alice Walker |
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
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| Charles Wright |
Hard Freight
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National Book Award for The Sciences
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jeremy Bernstein |
Einstein
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| Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Genetic Diversity & Human Equality
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| Amitai Etzioni |
Genetic fix
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| J.M. Jauch |
Are Quanta Real?
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| Ruth Kirk |
Desert
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| Susanne Katherina Langer |
Mind, Vol. II
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| George Laycock |
Autumn of the Eagle
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| Robert I. Levy |
Tahitians
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| William T. Powers |
Behavior, the control of perception
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| Edwin S. Shneidman |
Deaths of Man
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| Salvador Luria |
Life: The Unfinished Experiment
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Helen Lane |
Alternating current
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| Jackson Matthews |
Monsieur Teste
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| Kimon Friar |
Modern Greek Poetry: from Cavafis to Elytis
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| Anthony Hecht |
Seven against Thebes
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| Helen H. Bacon |
Seven against Thebes
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| Anthony Kerrigan |
The tragic sense of life in men and nations
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| Michael Kowal |
Essays on European literature
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| Ralph Manheim |
From the Diary of a Snail
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| W. S. Merwin |
Asian figures
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| Burton Watson |
The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases: Selections From The Poetry and Prose of Lu Yu
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| Sophie Wilkins |
The lime works
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| Karen Brazell |
The Confessions of Lady Nijo
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Helen Lane |
Alternating current
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| Jackson Matthews |
Monsieur Teste
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| Kimon Friar |
Modern Greek Poetry: from Cavafis to Elytis
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| Anthony Hecht |
Seven against Thebes
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| Helen H. Bacon |
Seven against Thebes
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| Anthony Kerrigan |
The tragic sense of life in men and nations
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| Michael Kowal |
Essays on European literature
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| Ralph Manheim |
From the Diary of a Snail
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| W. S. Merwin |
Asian figures
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| Burton Watson |
The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases: Selections From The Poetry and Prose of Lu Yu
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| Sophie Wilkins |
The lime works
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| Karen Brazell |
The Confessions of Lady Nijo
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Helen Lane |
Alternating current
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| Jackson Matthews |
Monsieur Teste
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| Kimon Friar |
Modern Greek Poetry: from Cavafis to Elytis
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| Anthony Hecht |
Seven against Thebes
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| Helen H. Bacon |
Seven against Thebes
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| Anthony Kerrigan |
The tragic sense of life in men and nations
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| Michael Kowal |
Essays on European literature
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| Ralph Manheim |
From the Diary of a Snail
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| W. S. Merwin |
Asian figures
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| Burton Watson |
The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases: Selections From The Poetry and Prose of Lu Yu
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| Sophie Wilkins |
The lime works
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| Karen Brazell |
The Confessions of Lady Nijo
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