Susanna Clarke Wins Fiction 2021 Women's Award for Her Novel 'Piranesi'

Susanna Clarke Wins Fiction 2021 Women's Award for Her Novel 'Piranesi'

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Category : Awards Published on: September 14 2021

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·         Writer Susanna Clarke won the Women's Award for Fiction 2021 for her novel 'Piranesi'.

·         Novelist and Booker-winner Bernardine Evaristo chaired this year's Women's Prize Judging Panel.

·         'Piranesi' is narrated by a man living in a labyrinthine, statue-filled house – except for one visitor known as another – that contains his entire universe.

·         Susanna Clark: English author best known for her debut novels Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

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