Agnès Gruda is a

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-born

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journalist and fiction writer. A foreign correspondent for ''

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'', she won a

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in 2014 for her reporting on the

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. Her debut short story collection ''Onze petites trahisons'' was a shortlisted finalist for the

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at the

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and journalist

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."Joanna Gruda dans la peau de son père"
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'', February 22, 2013.

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