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1979 National Book Awards

Biography and Autobiography	Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Children's Literature	The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
Contemporary Thought	The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
Fiction	Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
History	Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763, Richard Beale Davis
Poetry	Mirabell: Book of Numbers, James Merrill
Translation	Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry, Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia

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