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Sophie Coulombeau

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Sophie Coulombeau won the Route/Arts Council England Next Great Novelist Award and published her first novel, Rites, in 2012. She is a PhD student in English Literature at the University of York.

A bare lightbulb illuminates secondhand books in one of the many Hay-on-Wye bookshops during the Hay Festival on May 31, 2011 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.
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