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Desai wins another
Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, which won the latest Man Booker Prize, received another literary honour, the US's National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
Six prizes and two honorary awards were handed out at the 33rd annual critics award ceremony, which took place in New York. Among them were Simon Schama's Rough Crossings, which won for general nonfiction; Julie Phillips for James Tiptree Jr in the biography category; Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost won for autobiography and Troy Jollimore's début collection Tom Thomson in Purgatory for poetry.
Other awards included the criticism prize, which went to Lawrence Weschler, and a Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, awarded to Steven G Kellman.
Longtime critic John Leonard won the Lifetime Achievement award.
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