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Arcadia writer wins Foreign Fiction prize
Britain's most valuable honour for literature in translation, The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, has been won by the Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa.
At the National Portrait Gallery in London yesterday evening, he collected the award for his sixth novel, The Book of Chameleons, published by Arcadia.
The prize of £10,000, supported by Arts Council England and Champagne Taittinger, is divided equally between the author and his translator from the Portuguese version, Daniel Hahn. Agualusa is the first African-born winner of The Independent prize.
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