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- Megha Majumdar, novelist, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for "A Guardian and a Thief," about a woman's journey from India to the United States.
- Yiyun Li, nonfiction author and Princeton University professor, won the Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for "Things in Nature Merely Grow," addressing the loss of her two sons.
- Both authors will be honored at the American Library Association gathering in June.
