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In 2022, what honor was announced for Spiegelman?

  • National Artist Award

  • Medal of Freedom

  • Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

  • Guggenheim Fellowship

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In 2022, Art Spiegelman was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, which recognizes his substantial and lasting contribution to the development of the literary culture of the United States of America. Spiegelman's acclaimed graphic novel "Maus," which portrays the Holocaust using anthropomorphized mice and cats, stands as a seminal work that merges the personal and the political, redefining the boundaries of literature and comics.
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