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Judy Blume has been awarded an honorary National Book Award for Contributions to American Letters.
 
   
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The South African Nobel Laureate was commended by the Nobel committee as a novelist "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
 
         
 
 
 
 
 
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  Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, is dedicated to young adult and middle grade books. Razorbill publishes between 30 and 40 titles a year. The majority of those are contemporary commercial fiction.

Razorbill's backlist includes New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's So Yesterday, Peeps and The Last Days and R.A. Nelson's controversial debut, Teach Me. In 2007 and 2008, Razorbill will publish a new trilogy from Jacquelyn Mitchard, Tim, Defender of The Earth!, the outrageous follow-up to Sam Enthoven's bestselling The Black Tattoo, R.A. Nelson's Breath My Name and Talent by New York Times bestselling author Zoey Dean.

Razorbill will also publish a host of debut novels including Love, Meg by C. Leigh Purtill, Those Girls, by Sara Lawrence, 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger by Kevin Bolger and Spud, by John van de Ruit, which is the #1 fastest selling book in South Africa's history and was #1 in South Africa for 28 weeks in 2006 and is still going strong.

Look for Razorbill to continue to publish the very best of young adult and middle grade fiction and non-fiction.

Ben Schrank, President and Publisher

Ben Schrank joined the Penguin Group in 2006, after serving as Editorial Director of Alloy Entertainment, where he edited novels and series that included the New York Times #1 bestselling The Clique by Lisi Harrison and Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar. Mr. Schrank has been a creative writing professor in the MFA program at Brooklyn College, fiction editor at Seventeen and has written novels for adults and teenagers.