(Tina Fineberg/AP) Colum McCann, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction for his book "Let the Great World Spin", speaks at the National Book Awards on Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009 in New York.
Colum McCann Wins National Award for Novel
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NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Associated Press

The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate American literature and to wonder about its future.
Colum McCann won the fiction prize for "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in the pre-digital world of 1970s New York.
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