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Robb wins Ondaatje
Graham Robb has won the Ondaatje Prize for his The Discovery of France (Picador). The £10,000 prize was awarded by Sir Christopher Ojdaatje last night at The Travellers Club in London.
Also shortlisted were On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein (Hamish Hamilton); Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Harper Perennial); Sea Holly by Robert Minhinnick (Seren); Paradise with Serpents by Robert Carver (Harper Perennial); and The Whisperers by Orlando Figes (Allan Lane).
Judge Elaine Feinstein described the book as: "An elegantly written and continuously intriguing account of the landscape and legends which, in part, explain the histories of the very different regions of France."
Robb is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford,and is the author of biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud and Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century.
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