Category talk:National Book Award-winning works

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Now we have categories for "winning works" in the four current NBAward categories and their clear predecessors. (I created and filled two of them this week.)

National Book Award for Fiction winning works‎ (56 P)
National Book Award for Nonfiction winning works‎ (24 P)
National Book Award for Poetry winning works‎ (7 P)
National Book Award for Young People's Literature winning works‎ (23 P)

See their prefaces and Talk pages for enumeration of those "clear predecessors" of current award categories.

As I create Category: National Book Award winning works, it contains two winners in the 1935 to 1939 category "Most Original Book". They are the only wiki articles on NBA-winning books before 1950, except in the Nonfiction and Fiction categories, so the "winning works" categories now include all of our articles on pre-war award-winning books.

The four categories listed above should become subcategories of this one --and, if i understand correctly, they should be removed from all other categories at that time. --P64 (talk) 21:54, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update on coverage

Pages in category:

(2) Most Original Book, pre-war — see above
(6) First Novel or First Work of Fiction, 1980 to 1985

Together with the categories for "... Fiction winning works" and "... Nonfiction winning works", this is complete coverage of wikipedia articles on winning books (a) pre-war, (b) fiction for adult readers. --P64 (talk) 17:06, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quote greenly:

► National Book Award for Fiction winning works‎ (55 P)

► National Book Award for Nonfiction winning works‎ (26 P)

► National Book Award for Poetry winning works‎ (10 P)

► National Book Award for Young People's Literature winning works‎ (23 P)

Pages in category "National Book Award winning works"

The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

This category may now be complete --except for my oversights and any articles that are new this spring. As far as I know, that is, we have 146 total articles on NBAward-winning winning books.

Furthermore, every one of these articles at least mentions the Award and gives reference to a listing by the NBFoundation --almost always the page for the award year, "National Book Awards – yyyy". Here are standard references copied from the "Reference" sections of two biographies.

The Sea Around Us (by Rachel Carson)

^ "National Book Awards – 1952". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20.

(With acceptance speech by Carson and essay by Neil Baldwin from the Awards 50-year anniversary publications.)

The Green Ripper (by John D. MacDonald)

^ "National Book Awards – 1980". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-08.

(With essay by Glen David Gold from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

The award-winning authors are also done. For example, see our biographies of Carson and MacDonald.

--P64 (talk) 23:59, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]