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Caine Prize for African Writing Shortlist, $80 Million in NEA Grants, and More
Amazon Literary Partnership awards $1 million to nonprofits; Elena Ferrante on the power of female storytelling; Raymond Antrobus wins Rathbones Folio Prize; and other news.
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Simon Armitage New U.K. Poet Laureate, the 2019 Believer Festival, and More
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