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| Art Spiegelman | |
The National Book Foundation is presenting the 2022 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Art Spiegelman. The medal will be presented to him by Neil Gaiman during the National Book Awards ceremony on November 16.
Spiegelman is the first comic artist to receive the DCAL medal and is best known for Maus, his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel that retells his parents' survival as Polish Jews during the Holocaust. His other work includes Breakdowns, The Wild Party, In the Shadow of No Towers, a collection of three of his sketchbooks entitled Be a Nose!, and MetaMaus, a companion to The Complete Maus.