Awards & Winners

2004 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 2004 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 2004 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

2004 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

Lily Tuck

Honored for : The News from Paraguay

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Madeleine is Sleeping
Christine Schutt Florida
Joan Silber Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Kate Walbert Our Kind
National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Pete Hautman

Honored for : Godless

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Nominee Nominated Work
Pete Hautman Godless
Deb Caletti Honey, baby, sweetheart
Laban Carrick Hill Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Shelia P. Moses The Legend of Buddy Bush
Julie Anne Peters Luna
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Kevin Boyle

Honored for : Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

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Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
David Hackett Fischer Washington's Crossing
Jennifer Gonnerman Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Stephen Greenblatt Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
9/11 Commission 9/11 Commission Report
National Book Award for Poetry

Jean Valentine

Honored for : Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jean Valentine Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
William Heyen Shoah train
Donald Justice Collected Poems
Carl Phillips The Rest of Love
Cole Swensen Goest