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November 20, 2009, Friday
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A NOVEL about life in New York City in the 1970s and a biography of US tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the winners at the United States 60th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday.
Colum McCann won the fiction award with "Let the Great World Spin," published by Random House, while "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt," by T.J. Stiles and published by Alfred A. Knopf, won the nonfiction award.
"From 10 ordinary lives he crafts an indelibly hallucinatory portrait of a decaying New York City," the judges said of Irish-born McCann.
Phillip Hoose won the Young People's Literature award for "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice," published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The book tells the true story of Colvin, who was a teenager in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama -- nine months before Rosa Parks took the same stand. But instead of being celebrated as Parks was, Colvin was jailed.
The National Book Award for Poetry was awarded to Keith Waldrop for "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," published by University of California Press.
The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was awarded to Gore Vidal, whose 1948 novel "The City and the Pillar" was one of the first explicitly gay novels in American fiction.
"The Complete Stories" by Flannery O'Connor was named the best fiction book of all the National Book Award winners from the past 60 years.
It was chosen through an online poll answered by more than 10,000 people.
Colum McCann won the fiction award with "Let the Great World Spin," published by Random House, while "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt," by T.J. Stiles and published by Alfred A. Knopf, won the nonfiction award.
"From 10 ordinary lives he crafts an indelibly hallucinatory portrait of a decaying New York City," the judges said of Irish-born McCann.
Phillip Hoose won the Young People's Literature award for "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice," published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The book tells the true story of Colvin, who was a teenager in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama -- nine months before Rosa Parks took the same stand. But instead of being celebrated as Parks was, Colvin was jailed.
The National Book Award for Poetry was awarded to Keith Waldrop for "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," published by University of California Press.
The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was awarded to Gore Vidal, whose 1948 novel "The City and the Pillar" was one of the first explicitly gay novels in American fiction.
"The Complete Stories" by Flannery O'Connor was named the best fiction book of all the National Book Award winners from the past 60 years.
It was chosen through an online poll answered by more than 10,000 people.
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