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Zadie Smith wins the 2006 Orange Prize.

Zadie Smith has held off competition from perhaps the strongest Orange shortlist in the prize's history to take this year's award with her third novel, On Beauty.It was third time lucky for Smith, who went into tonight's ceremony as the favourite, having been shortlisted for both of her previous novels, White Teeth in 2001 and The Autograph Man in 2003.

Off topic (sorry about that) - too lazy to send an e-mail. Why is it that I see this rectangular box in the bottom left corner of your blog? Never noticed it before because I'd been reading from a feed reader

Oooo. You are right. IE seems okay. Firefox shows the box. Will fix it milady. thanks.

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