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British-Egyptian novelist Omar Hamilton will receive a EUR 10,000 prize<\/strong> for his novel The City Always Wins<\/a> next month. The Jean-Luc Lagard\u00e8re Foundation picked up the French translation of Hamilton\u2019s book for its Arabic Literature Award category, according to Egypt Today<\/a>. The novel centers around the events of January 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British-Egyptian novelist Omar Hamilton will receive a EUR 10,000 prize for his novel The City Always Wins next month. The Jean-Luc Lagard\u00e8re Foundation picked up the French translation of Hamilton\u2019s book for its Arabic Literature Award category, according to Egypt Today. 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