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Novelist Don DeLillo named first recipient of Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction

Don Delillo - Washington Post

Don DeLillo, the celebrated novelist who once complained that as a young writer he “lacked ambition,” has been named the first recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The new lifetime achievement award, announced Thursday by Librarian of Congress James Billington, will be presented at the 13th annual National Book Festival in September.

 

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