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Get out your Horses album, crank it up and celebrate: Musical icon Patti Smith - who appears at Miami Book Fair International at 8 p.m. Friday - won the National Book Award for fiction for her memoir Just Kids, about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Other winners:
Fiction: Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
Young People's Literature: Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine
Poetry: Lighthead, Terrence Hayes
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