{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards","publication_date":"November 20, 2025","summary":"The night’s honorees expressed gratitude for prizes bestowed and for literature itself, and horror and disenchantment at the political and social climate, from immigration raids in the U.S. by masked agents to the carnage in the Middle East.","author_name":"By Hillel Italie, Associated Press","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2025\/11\/d5acdb9b9231c36b00cdfc7e59019a51-GettyImages-2247533499-1024x683.jpg","thumbnail_height":683,"thumbnail_width":1024}