UK: American author wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize with bestselling epic ‘The Kindly Ones’

US author Littell wins Bad Sex in fiction prize

Mexico’s Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize, Spanish-speaking world’s top literary honor

Mexican Pacheco wins Cervantes literary award

Maine author wins National Book Award for account of young civil rights pioneer

Winning author tells story of civil rights pioneer

National Book Awards celebrate New York stories as honorees ponder the future of literature

Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction

New York novel, Vanderbilt biography win National Book Awards

Novelist Colum McCann wins book award

NEW YORK — Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin,” a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

Tales of rich and poor are featured themes at upcoming National Book Awards ceremony

Tales of rich and poor loom large at book awards