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What awards did The World According to Garp win?

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John Irvingā€™s 1978 novel The World According to Garp was a finalist for a National Book Award for fiction in 1979, and it won the National Book Award in the paperback fiction category in 1980. The book was adapted into a film starring Robin Williams and Glenn Close in 1982.