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Author Geraldine Brooks Wins Dayton Literary Prize

First Posted: 08/19/10 01:44 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:25 PM ET

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"I covered the fighting in the Balkans as a journalist and I know what peace can mean to a civilian population that has been besieged and violated by years of war," she said in a statement.

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