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Ingrid Persaud wins BBC national short story award for debut tale

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 | 4:39 PM

Seeing off an all-female shortlist, The Sweet Sop – about an estranged father and son united by chocolate – scooped the £15,000 prize

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Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud has won the £15,000 BBC national short story award with the first short fiction she has written, the tale of a dying father and his estranged son, which judges called both “tender and ebullient”.

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