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Edna O'Brien and Sinead Gleeson shortlisted for €11k book prizes

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The shortlists for two book prizes worth £10,000 (€11k) each have been announced. Fiction and biography contenders from the last 12 months will contend for this year’s James Tait Black Prizes, presented by the University of Edinburgh every year since 1919.

The winners will be announced in August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, taking place online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The four novels shortlisted for the fiction prize are Girl by Edna O’Brien; Ducks by Lucy Ellmann; Travellers by Helon Habila; and Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall.

Fiction judge Dr Benjamin Bateman said: “At our trying hour of staying home, these four dazzling works of fiction supply nourishing forms of travel – around the world, across

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