Hooray!!
Pete Hautman won the National Book Award for Godless. The National Book Foundation has a full list of the winners.
Judy Blume was honored with the Medal for Distiguished Contribution to American Letters--she was the first YA author to recieve the award. I heard part of her acceptance speech on NPR this morning, and it sounded great--as she's a huge freedom of speech activist, she was talking about (not surprisingly) censorship. Rad.
posted by Leila at 8:53 AM
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Oddly enough, I'm not all that crazy about a lot of her books--I love the funny ones, but I don't think that the issue ones have aged all that gracefully. (They still circulate heavily at the library, though, so what do I know?) I do think, however, that her books are very important--groundbreaking, even--she totally deserved the award.
8:51 AM
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