General Book Awards:

PEN/ Faulkner Award
2012 Winner The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka For information on past winners, click on the prize name.	The award is given each March

PEN/ Malamud Award
2012 Winner Dusk and other stories, James Salter For information on past winners, click on the prize name.	The award is given each March

Pulitzer Prize
2012 Winners Fiction: No Award Given Drama: Water by the Spoonful, Quiara Alegria   History: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marble Biography or Autobiography: George F. Kennan: An American Life, John Lewis Gaddis Poetry: Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith For information on past winners, click on the Prize name.	The award is given each April

National Book Award
2011 Winners Fiction: Salvage the Bones,  Jesmyn Ward Nonfiction: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt Poetry: Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney For more information on the winners, click on the prize name.	Award is given each November

Nobel Prize in Literature
2012 Winner Author Mo Yan	Award is given each October

 

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