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American novelist Madeline Miller is best known for her books 'The Song of Achilles' (2011) and 'Circe' (2018). It's noted that it took Miller roughly a decade to write 'The Song of Achilles', for which she won the Orange Prize for Fiction (now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction).…

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