The Bee Sting by Paul Murray won in the fiction category, while Strong Female Character by Fern Brady won in the nonfiction category.
At a time when literature is under threat from the addictive distractions of social media and the internet, literary prizes not only celebrate individual writers and elevate careers, but draw attention to a beautiful art form that requires and rewards sustained concentration and engagement with words, other people's lives, and the imagination, said Evaristo.
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