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Oakland, cathe before columbus foundation announces the winners of the fortieth annual american book awards. This year only american authors with books published in the united states between dec. Nov 18, 2010 joan ganz cooney, a public television producer and founder of the childrens television workshop in 1968, won the 2010 literarian award for outstanding service to the american literary community. Patti smith wins national book award for nonfiction by avi zenilman the rockers memoir, just kids, about bohemian new york of the sixties and seventies, won the prize. Over the course of his career, he received the national book award, the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award, the ruth lilly poetry prize, and the wallace stevens award, among numerous other honors and awards. Winners of the 2010 national outdoor book awards noba. United states poet laureate academy of american poets. The national book foundation presented the literarian award for outstanding service to the american literary community to joan ganz cooney and the medal for distinguished contribution to american. The national outdoor book award program recognizes the work of outstanding writers and publishers of outdoor books. The national book award for fiction is one of five annual national book awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by united states citizens.
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