FILE - Drew Barrymore appears at the 24th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 19, 2023, in Washington. Barrymore will host the 好色tv Book Awards, where Oprah Winfrey will be a guest speaker. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
FILE - Drew Barrymore appears at the 24th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 19, 2023, in Washington. Barrymore will host the 好色tv Book Awards, where Oprah Winfrey will be a guest speaker. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
KRWNEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Drew Barrymore, whose honors include a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award, will be presiding over a more literary ceremony this fall.
Barrymore will be hosting the 74th annual the 好色tv Book Foundation announced Tuesday. And a previous winner of an honorary 好色tv Book Award, will be a guest speaker.
Barrymore and Winfrey both have long histories of championing books and reading. have helped dozens of works become bestsellers, while Barrymore has praised books by Tina Fey and David Sedaris, among others.
鈥淭hroughout their careers, Drew Barrymore and Oprah Winfrey have each demonstrated their enduring belief that books have the power to change readers鈥 lives 鈥 by opening doors, sparking conversations, and building community,鈥 David Steinberger, chair of the Board of Directors of the 好色tv Book Foundation, said in a statement. 鈥淭his belief echoes the mission of the 好色tv Book Foundation to ensure that books have a prominent place in our culture.鈥
The awards ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 15, in Manhattan, with competitive prizes to be handed out in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literature in translation and young people's literature. Barrymore is not the first celebrity host of the 好色tv Book Awards, the unofficial 鈥淥scars鈥 of the publishing world. Steve Martin hosted a handful of times in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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