The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America. Since 1989, they have been overseen by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture. Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honor the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature published each year.
 
The first translation award ran from 1968 to 1983 and was for fiction only, and the translated author could be living or dead.  Since several of these editions from these years are no longer in print, any edition available will fulfill these prompts. The National Book Award for Translated Literature was inaugurated in 2018 for fiction or non-fiction, where both author and translator were alive at the beginning of the awards cycle.

The winners and finalists from each year can be found here: https://www.nationalbook.org/national-book-awards/years/

This challenge will be updated each year.