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[世界文絡] Patti Smith wins National Book Award with Robert Mapplethorpe story

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心雪 超級版主 2010-11-19 00:48:13 灘主

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Singer-songwriter's memoir of life with photographer and within 1960s New York scene wins prestigious US prize

Patti Smith's bitter-sweet memoir of a youthful affair with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe won her a prestigious National Book Award in the US last night.

The singer-songwriter's widely praised book Just Kids tells how Smith met Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and charts their transition from flatmates to lovers, against the backdrop of a New York scene inhabited by the likes of Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.

Though they later split up after Mapplethorpe settled on his homosexuality, they stayed close friends, with the photographer taking the famous image of Smith that adorns the cover of her debut album, Horses, released in 1975.

An emotional Smith said she had "loved books all my life" as she accepted the prize at a ceremony in New York.

Just Kids took the National Book Awards non-fiction prize, while little-known writer Jaimy Gordon caused an upset by taking the fiction prize with her horse racing tale, Lord of Misrule.

Pundits had tipped Nicole Krauss's Great House or Lionel Shriver's So Much For That to take the fiction prize, but it went instead to  Gordon's comedy about the bargain-basement end of the horse racing world. Gordon's book follows the lives of five battered characters involved with a poor racetrack in West Virginia and is published by small press McPherson & Company.

Terrance Hayes took the award for poetry with his collection Lighthead, while Kathryn Erskine's Mockingbird, won for young people's literature.

Tom Wolfe, author of Bonfire of the Vanities, received a lifetime achievement award.

The National Book Awards have run annually since 1950, with winners now receiving $10,000 (£6,200).

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