Colum McCann wins major US fiction prize

Reported by Independent on Thursday, 19 November 2009 (on November 19, 2009)

Colum McCann's September 11 novel Let the Great World Spin picked up the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction, one of the most significant literary awards in the US next to the Pulitzer Prize. Winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City.

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