Hisham Matar won the fiction prize, and Sandra Cisneros received the lifetime achievement award … The awards, which were announced Thursday at a ceremony at the New School in New York City, are among the most highly regarded literary prizes in the United States. The winners are chosen by book critics instead of committees made up of authors or academics, which is how most literary prizes are administered. Read more
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