National Book Award winners Louise Erdrich and Katherine Boo
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Louise Erdrich's novel "The Round House" won the 2012 National Book Award for fiction and Katherine Boo won the 2012 National Book Award for non-fiction for her book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity."
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The National Book Awards were announced last week (see the full list of finalists and winners here) and today we
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