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Dave Eggers gets two LAT book awards

By Kevin Roderick | April 24, 2010 12:27 AM

At Friday night's Los Angeles Times Book Prize ceremony, Dave Eggers won the current interest award for "Zeitoun" and was given the event's first Innovators Award. Evan S. Connell won the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, Kevin Starr won in history for "Golden Dreams: California in the Age of Abundance 1950-1963," and the top fiction prize went to Rafael Yglesias for "A Happy Marriage." LAT story | List

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