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Europe is a country and everyone speaks French here. * Nikita Lalwani’s novel, Gifted, has won the inaugural Desmond Elliott prize. The widely acclaimed debut novel about immigration and a precocious childhood, has been in contention for other literary prizes, but not won until now. The £10,000 winner’s cheque, will be donated, by the author, to human rights campaigners Liberty. Nikita Lalwani said: “We live at a time when we can’t take personal freedoms and civil liberties for granted any more - in this country as in others - so an organisation which campaigns on these issues deserves
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