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Percival Everett's " James " wins National Book Award for fiction.
Jason De León ’s “Soldiers and Kings : Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling ” wins nonfiction.
The prize for young people's literature was given to Shifa Saltagi Safadi’s coming of age story “ Kareem Between ,” and poetry award.
Barbara Kingsolver and W. Paul Coates receive lifetime achievement medals.
Kingsolver acknowledged feeling “smacked down, at the moment, but added that she has known despair before.
Kingsolver likened truth and love to forces of nature, like gravity and the sun, always there whether you see them or not.
The writer's job is to imagine “a better ending than the one we've been given," she said.
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