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WORD: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winners announced

Maryse Conde, Chris Abani and Tracy Price-Thompson were fiction winners at the 15th annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, the foundation announced at a banquet in New York City. Separately, authors should note the application deadline for the 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards is November 15.

Conde’s Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat, published by Atria Books, won the best fiction award. Abani took best debut for his novel Graceland (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Price-Thompson's A Woman's Worth (One World/Ballantine Books) won best contemporary fiction.

The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation was founded in 1990 to "develop, nurture and sustain the world community of writers of African descent (and to) preserve the legacy and ensure the future of Black writing."

The application deadline for the 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards is November 15. Authors, publicists and publishers can find an application online at http://www.hurstonwright.org/legacy_application.html.

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