Bernice Barry wins $100,000 prize for witchcraft accusation novel

Australian author Bernice Barry won the $100,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize for "The Names of a Hare," a novel about a 17th-century Cornish woman accused of witchcraft. The Margaret River-based writer, 73, says the award validates her 15 years writing about forgotten women and history.

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