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Tayari Jones' 'Exquisitely Intimate' Novel Wins Women's Prize For Fiction

An American Marriage won the nearly $40,000 award, once known as the Orange Prize, at a ceremony Tuesday in London. "We all loved this brilliant book," the judges said.
Tayari Jones speaks onstage at the Women In The World Summit earlier this year in in New York City. On Wednesday, Jones' novel <em>An American Marriage</em> won the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction.

Less than two months after Tayari Jones won the , the American author has claimed a new laurel: the Women's Prize for Fiction. The judges selected her novel at a ceremony Tuesday

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