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The winners will be announced on wednesday, november 14 at the 69 th national book awards ceremony and benefit dinner at cipriani wall street in new york city. More than 650 guests, about 10 more than last year, attended the ceremony for the awards, now in their 61st year, at cipriani wall street in manhattan. National book awards, the industrys oscars, awarded in new. Meet national book award finalists negar djavadi and tina. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the bookseller discovery, the most original book.
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