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Author Kate Mosse: CBE is recognition of importance of Women’s Prize for Fiction

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Author Kate Mosse has said she sees her CBE as a recognition of the importance of The Women’s Prize for Fiction, of which she is a co-founder, as she was named in the New Year Honours.

The novelist, 62, whose books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries, is best known for the bestselling Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel – and The Joubert Family Chronicles – The Burning Chambers, The

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