ALA Hands Out First Adult Prizes – Publisher’s Weekly – Andrew Albanese

A committee of librarians has done what Pulitzer Prize officials could not do this year: they selected a winning work of fiction, giving the first-ever Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction to Irish novelist Anne Enright for her book The Forgotten Waltz (W.W. Norton). Robert K. Massie, meanwhile, took home top honors for nonfiction for Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House).

Thank you, American Library Association! Click to find out more about the awards and the runners-up!