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Debut novel set in Nigeria wins $50,000 Kirkus prize

| November 5, 2020 4:30 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A debut novel about four Nigerian siblings and a family torn apart has won a $50,000 award. Tola Rotimi Abraham's “Black Sunday” is this year's winner of the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

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