At the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards the author J.K. Rowling received the Outstanding Achievement Award. Francesca Simon won the W.H. Smith Children's Book Award for Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman, and Afghan novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, won the Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year award for his follow-up novel A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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