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April 04, 2007

The awards pile up

    Philip Roth is in the news this week, not just because we're featuring his "American Pastoral" in April, but because he has won the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

The award comes with a prize of $40,000 and will be given every two years.

Saul Bellow, of course, is the author of "Henderson the Rain King," "Herzog" and "The Adventures of Augie March." Bellow died in 2005.

According to an item in the New York Times this week, Roth's novel "Everyman" was inspired in part by the death of Bellow.

"How could I be anything but thrilled to receive an award bearing Saul Bellow's name," Roth was quoted as saying.

Posted at 02:49 PM in Book of the month |

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