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Tue 11 Nov 2008Children's novelist wins Glen Dimplex
FIRST-TIME writer Sally Nicholls, whose book, Ways to Live Forever, is about a young boy dying of leukaemia, was declared winner of the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2008 at a gala dinner in Dublin last night.
She was presented with €25,000 in prize money for the novel, which was published earlier this year by Scholastic Children's Books.
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