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Percival Everett wins National Book Award for James
Percival Everett has won the 2024 National Book Award for fiction for James, his Booker shortlisted re-imagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Percival was awarded the $10,000 prize at a ceremony in New York on the evening of the 20th of November.
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