On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award.

Everett's novel, a dramatic reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” already has won the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It ...

NEW YORK — James McBride’s latest novel and nonfiction by poets Claudia Rankine and Natasha Trethewey are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for fiction and nonfiction. The American ...

In one of the biggest surveys of its kind, we asked more than 60 Irish writers, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers to pick and then rank their favourite Irish fiction of the ...

A Sacramento teen who died while trying to save his little brother from drowning was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A teen who drowned rescuing his brother was honored posthumously with the prestigious Carnegie Hero Fund Medal. Nearly two years after the tragic ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Receiving a literary prize from the American Library Association is a kind of homecoming for the essayist-poet Hanif Abdurraqib. “When I was young, I treated the library as a place to ...

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