Jesmyn Ward's novel 'Salvage the Bones' wins National Book Award for fiction

Honorary prizes were given to Florida-based bookseller Mitch Kaplan, who looked back warmly on a 30-year career/calling in a business he found more fulfilling than law school, and poet John Ashbery, who called writing a "pleasure I can almost taste."

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Published inStar (Whitehorse)
Main Author Italie, Hillel
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Whitehorse, Y.T Postmedia Network Inc 17.11.2011
Subjects
Book awards
Nominations
Poets
Young adults
NEW YORK
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Summary:Honorary prizes were given to Florida-based bookseller Mitch Kaplan, who looked back warmly on a 30-year career/calling in a business he found more fulfilling than law school, and poet John Ashbery, who called writing a "pleasure I can almost taste."