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Awards!

It's always an exciting time of year when the literary world honors its most notable books and authors. The Harvard Book Store salutes those recently given major book awards and those who are finalists for others.

On November 17, the National Book Awards were given out. Ha Jin won the Fiction prize for , while the poetry award went to Ai's . John Dower's garnered the non-fiction prize. The award for Young People's Literature went to , by Kimberly Willis Holt. The Booker Award, given annually to a novel written by a British, Irish, Pakistani, or South African writer , was recently awarded to , by J.M. Coetzee.

The most famous prize in literature is of course the Nobel Prize, which is given each year to a writer, not for a specific title, but for his/her lifelong body of work. The 1999 Nobel went to German writer Gunter Grass. We also have learned of the 1999 winners of the prestigious Lannan Awards.

The finalists were:

National Book Award
Fiction


Poetry

Non-Fiction

Children's

The Booker Prize

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