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A short story in Arabic wins children literary award
A few months ago, the Rainbow Caterpillar Multilingual Children's Bookstore launched a new literary award for a short story written in a language other than English or French. The writing competition is now over and the winner has been selected. The Link's Toronto correspondent Lyne-Francoise Pelletier tells us about the winner, an Arabic short story called Sea of Pearls.
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