Helen DeWitt turns down $175k Windham-Campbell prize over promotional requirements
The novelist says she couldn’t accept the award after being told it would entail ‘extensive promotion’
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Booker shortlistee and UK playwright among winners of Windham-Campbell prizes
Recognising work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, the $175,000 awards aim to free writers to work without financial pressures
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Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners
Dangarembga, American writer Margo Jefferson and British playwright Winsome Pinnock are among eight recipients of the $165,000 grants, as the award marks its 10th anniversary
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