DCAL Medal
2023 Rita Dove
2022 Art Spiegelman
2021 Karen Tei Yamashita
2020 Walter Mosley
2019 Edmund White
2018 Isabel Allende
2017 Annie Proulx
2016 Mo Farah
2015 Don DeLillo
2014 Ursula K Le Guin
2005 Norman Mailer
1988 Jason Epstein
2022 Art Spiegelman
2021 Karen Tei Yamashita
2020 Walter Mosley
2019 Edmund White
2018 Isabel Allende
2017 Annie Proulx
2016 Mo Farah
2015 Don DeLillo
2014 Ursula K Le Guin
2005 Norman Mailer
1988 Jason Epstein
About the National Book Awards
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The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL)
The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL)