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Setterfield takes Yorkshire prize
23.10.07 Graeme Neill
Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale has won the inaugural Yorkshire Book of the Year award, celebrating the best of the region's writing. The award was announced during the recent Richmond Book Festival and chosen by a panel of judges.
It was shortlisted for the award as the best adult fiction book of the year and beat competition from young readers' nominee The Curse of Salamander Street by GP Taylor and North Yorkshire 199 by Richard Jemison et al in the Yorkshire writings category.
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