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Sanjena Sathian won the Townsend Prize for Fiction in 2024 for her novel Gold Diggers. Every other year a board of judges awards the Townsend to an outstanding novel or short-story collection written and published during the previous two years while the author lived in Georgia.

From Penguin Random House

Book cover of Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian, winner of the 2023 Townsend Prize for Fiction.

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