Awards & Winners

1993 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1993 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1993 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1993 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

E. Annie Proulx

Honored for : The Shipping News

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
Amy Bloom Come to Me
Thom Jones The Pugilist at Rest
Richard Powers Operation Wandering Soul
Bob Shacochis Swimming in the volcano
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Gore Vidal

Honored for : United States: Essays 1952-1992

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Gore Vidal United States: Essays 1952-1992
William Leach Land of Desire
David Levering Lewis W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
Richard Slotkin Gunfighter Nation
Peter Svenson Battlefield
National Book Award for Poetry

A. R. Ammons

Honored for : Garbage

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
A. R. Ammons Garbage
Mark Doty My Alexandria
Margaret Gibson The vigil : a poem in four voices
Donald Hall The museum of clear ideas
Lawrence Raab What We Don't Know About Each Other