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New York: National Book Awards judges honoured authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder.” Alameddine’s narrative of intense family bonds within the chaos of modern Lebanon received the fiction prize.

In contrast, Smith, who has received numerous previous awards for her lyricism and intensity, won for poetry. The nonfiction prize was awarded to the Canadian-Iranian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad for his fierce indictment of the contemporary West, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.”

Iranian American Daniel Nayeri’s “The Teacher of Nomad Land

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