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Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

       They've announced that The Garden of Evening Mists (by Tan Twan Eng) has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
       The prize was founded in 2009, and:
For the purposes of the Prize, a historical novel means that the majority of the events described take place at least 60 years before the publication of the novel, and therefore stand outside any mature personal experience of the author.
       See also this year's shortlist; unfortunately there does not appear to be a list of all the entries.

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