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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher wins Dylan Thomas prize with ‘audacious’ novel The Coin

Yasmin Zaher.
‘Literature is at its best when it resists the boxes’ … Yasmin Zaher. Photograph: Willy Somma/The Dylan Thomas Prize

A novel about a Palestinian woman who participates in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize.

Palestinian journalist Yasmin Zaher took home the £20,000 prize – awarded to writers aged 39 or under in honour of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age – for her debut novel The Coin. She was announced as the winner at a ceremony in Swansea, Thomas’s birthplace.

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