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Graphic of a sealed cream awards envelope with a red wax seal, handwritten Best Performance: Narrator, a card reading Six names. One winner, and a label: to be opened on stage, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Monday 23 November; sponsored by the London Book Fair, supported by the Big Issue