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WATCH LIVE: Aspen Words Literary Prize Set To Announce Its First-Ever Winner

The Aspen Institute's prize recognizes fiction that tackles today's thorniest social issues. But just one writer will win inaugural honors at a ceremony hosted by NPR's Linda Holmes and Michel Martin.
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Five works of fiction entered Tuesday night with the inaugural Aspen Words Literary Prize. As stories of immigrants and refugees, past hardships and hopes for the future, these novels and short story collections contain multitudes — but they

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