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23/11/2005
Didion, Mailer take honours at Book Awards
Authors Joan Didion and Norman Mailer were winners at this year's US
National Book Awards in New York.
Didion's took the US National Book Award for her non-fiction book Year of
Magical Thinking, a memoir on the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne in
2003 and the severe illness of her daughter.
The judges called it "an unflinching journey into intimacy and grief".
Norman Mailer was honoured for his body of work with the Medal for
Distinguished Contributions to American Letters.
Poet, critic, bookstore owner and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, best
known for publishing Alan Ginsberg's Howl, which sparked an obscenity trial,
was presented with a lifetime service award.
William T Vollmann took the fiction prize for Europe Central, a novel about
the moral choices of Germans and Russians during World War II.
The winner of the young people's literature award was Jeanne Birdsall with
her debut novel, The Penderwicks.
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