KATHMANDU, April 4: US President Barack Obama won the biography prize for his memoir Dreams* From My Father at the British Book Awards in London Friday, BBC reported.
Aravind Adiga won ´Author of the Year´ award for his Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger. Obama was also a contender for the award for his best-seller, The Audacity of Hope.
Obama fought off competition from Paul O´Grady and Dawn French to take the biography prize, BBC said.
Kate Summerscale won ´non-fiction´ award and ´Book of the Year´ for her Victorian murder mystery, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; Stephenie Meyer took home ´Children´s Book of the Year´ for Breaking Dawn; Swedish author Stieg Larsson posthumously won the ´Crime Thriller of the Year´ award for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; and Sebastian Faulks won the ´Popular Fiction´ award for his James Bond story, Devil May Care.
Barack Obama’s book not expected to be released in 2019
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