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The georgia childrens book award was established in 1968 by sheldon root, a professor in the department of language education at the university of georgia to foster a love of reading, and to introduce children to books of literary excellence. New york tanehisi coates won the national book award for nonfiction wednesday night for between the world and me, the searing best seller about being black in america. Check awards winners of 1970 national book awards ceremony. Richard rhodes, who won the nonfiction book award last year. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the bookseller discovery, the most original book. At the final national book awards ceremony every november, the national book foundation.
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