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Chinese dissident author wins German prize

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Jun 21, 2012 05:54 PM IST

Chinese dissident author Liao Yiwu won the annual German Book Trade Peace Prize, earning praise for his portrayal of what the judges called "the outcasts of modern China." He spent four years in jail after writing a poem about the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

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