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Women's Prize for Fiction
June 10 , 2019
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- American author Tayari Jones has won the Women's Prize for Fiction for her book, "An American Marriage".
- The book portraits a young African American's wrongful conviction and how it affects his marriage.
- Last year's Booker prize winner "Milkman" by Anna Burns and former Booker winner Pat Barker's new novel, "The Silence of the Girls", were also shortlisted for the women's award.
- The prize was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote international fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible.
- It is annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
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