Mailer and Ferlinghetti to be feted
The National Book Awards will celebrate two senior literary rebels this fall, giving honorary awards to “The Naked and the Dead” author Norman Mailer and to Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Mailer, 82, is to receive the foundation’s medal “for distinguished contribution to American letters,” while Ferlinghetti will be given a new prize, the Literarian Award for “outstanding service to the American literary community.”
The National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization, sponsors the National Book Awards, which will be handed out in New York on Nov. 16. The ceremony will be hosted by Garrison Keillor.
From Associated Press
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