NEW YORK (AP) – Literary and popular fiction clashed at the National Book Awards on Wednesday night as honorary winner and Mainer Stephen King urged the audience to pay more attention to writers like himself and fiction winner Shirley Hazzard said she wouldn’t.

“I don’t think giving us a reading list of those who are most read at this moment is much of a satisfaction,” said Hazzard, cited for her novel “The Great Fire,” a romance set just after World War II.

“We have these serious inclinations. We have our own intuitions, our own individuality towards what we want to read … We don’t know why. Thank God nobody can explain.”

Other winners included Carlos Eire, who received the nonfiction prize for “Waiting for Snow in Havana”; Polly Horvath, winner in the young people’s category for “The Canning Season,” and C.K. Williams, the poetry winner for “The Singing.”

Each received $10,000. Finalists got $1,000.