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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020416
Author:Louise Jury Media Correspondent

YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN, The Independent columnist, has won the George Orwell Prize for a journalist judged to have made political writing into an art.

Ms Alibhai-Brown, who writes extensively on a range of issues - but notably Asian affairs - received the award at a ceremony in London last night, where Rupert Cornwell, The Independent's Washington correspondent, was also commended. Peter Hennessy, the history professor and a member of the judges' panel, said: "We had a very rich field this year, several of whom dealt with the word and the world in a fashion that we think would have satisfied ...

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