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Actor and author Nick Offerman, best known for his role as Ron Swanson on NBC's Parks and Recreation, will host the 69th National Book Awards. Offerman has written several bestselling books, including Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living and The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History (co-authored with his wife, Megan Mullally).
Winners in the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature will be announced at the event, and lifetime achievement awards will be presented to author Isabel Allende and Doron Weber of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The benefit dinner, on November 14 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, also serves to fund the National Book Foundation's educational and programming work.