National Book Award for Nonfiction
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| + | The '''National Book Award for Nonfiction''' is one of four annual [[National Book Award]]s, which are given by the [[National Book Foundation]] to recognize outstanding literary work by U.S. citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers". | ||
| - | '''''The Swerve: How the World Became Modern''''' is a non-fiction book by [[Stephen Greenblatt]] and winner of the 2012 [[Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction]] and 2011 [[National Book Award for Nonfiction]]. | + | ==See also== |
| - | + | *[[List of winners of the National Book Award]], winners only. | |
| - | Greenblatt tells the story of how [[Poggio Bracciolini]], a 15th-century papal emissary and obsessive book hunter, saved the last copy of the Roman poet [[Lucretius]]'s ''[[On the Nature of Things]]'' from near-terminal neglect in a German monastery, thus reintroducing important ideas that sparked the modern age. | + | |
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| - | Greenblatt noted how unpopular the irreligious nature of the poem was even before Christianity spread: | + | |
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| - | :Once… you start thinking what the implications of a world made of atoms and emptiness and nothing else, lots of things, potentially at least, follow. And the things that follow can be extremely dangerous -- [dangerous to pagan, Jewish] or Christian orthodoxy… | + | |
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The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by U.S. citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".
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- List of winners of the National Book Award, winners only.
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