### [2025-11-19](/feed/2025/11/19/index.md)

##### 2025 National Book Awards
# At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Fiction prize for his novel "The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)", while Omar El Akkad wins the Nonfiction prize for his book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" about the Gaza war. 




### Sources:

1. [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5607997/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2025-national-book-awards)

### Changes:

1. At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Nonfiction prize for his novel "The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)", while Omar El Akkad wins the Fiction prize for his book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" about the Gaza war.  _2025-11-20 16:31:15 (First version)_
1. At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Fiction prize for his novel "The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)", while Omar El Akkad wins the Nonfiction prize for his book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" about the Gaza war.  _(Current version)_

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