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Helen DeWitt turns down $175k Windham-Campbell...
The novelist says she couldn’t accept the award after being told it would entail ‘extensive promotion’US writer Helen DeWitt has spoken out after being chosen as one of the original eight recipients of this year’s Windham-Campbell writing prizes, worth $175,000 (£130,000) each, but ultimately having to turn down the award because she was unable to participate in the promotional activities that the prize requires.In a blog and a series of posts on X, the cult author of books including The Last Sa
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