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Polish writer in the running for famous US literature prize

Tokarczuk's 'Flights' has already won awards in the UK and in her native Poland. Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP

After scooping a British prize Olga Tokarczuk’s book ‘Flights’ has been shortlisted for the National Book Awards in America.

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