Today, the National Book Foundation announced a change in the eligibility criteria for the annual National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature.
Beginning with the 75th National Book Awards, submissions for which open on March 13 of this year, the prizes will be open not only to US citizens but also “authors who maintain their primary, long-term home in the United States, US territories, or Tribal lands.”
In this, the National Book Awards will follow in the footsteps of the Pulitzer Prizes, whose board expanded eligibility guidelines with similar language last year, after pressure from the literary community.
