Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

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The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

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