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Each year, at our annual Spring Revel, the board of The Paris Review awards two prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It is with great pleasure that we announce our 2013 honorees. The Plimpton Prize for Fiction is a $10,000 award given to a new voice from our last four issues. Named after our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[14,811,10199,1527,10474,30],"class_list":["post-49318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-george-plimpton","tag-j-d-daniels","tag-ottessa-moshfegh","tag-plimpton-prize","tag-southern-prize","tag-terry-southern"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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