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Colson Whitehead Wins the 2017 Hurston/Wright Literary Fiction Award

On Friday October 20th the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy awards were held in Washington DC at the Washington Plaza hotel. won for fiction and won the non fiction award for . The debut fiction award went to by and won the award for poetry.

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