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    Congratulations to Tayari Jones, who just won the Women’s Prize for Fiction!

    Katie Yee

    June 5, 2019, 3:19pm

    At a ceremony in central London earlier today, Tayari Jones (who beat out Pat Barker, Madeline Miller, Diana Evans, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Anna Burns) was presented with the £30,000 award (and a limited edition bronze figure, the “Bessie”) for her novel, An American Marriage, which tells the story of a couple torn apart when one of them is imprisioned for a crime he didn’t commit.

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