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On Wednesday a winner will be announced for the most lucrative short-story prize in the world
Liz Nugent on getting published in the most difficult period ever for the industry
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Mayo writer Colin Barrett wins Frank O’Connor award with debut collection
Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien
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When Yiyun Li left China, at the age of 24, she couldn’t speak English. Now, nearly two decades later, she is recognised as one of its most perceptive contemporary writers
The power of guilt
The new novel by Yiyun Li, winner of the first Frank O’Connor award, is formidably intelligent and stylistically precise, but it lacks empathy
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