Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards

By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored 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.”
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