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A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear has been named the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize.
Preti Taneja's We That Are Young, which has moved the motion to India, was described as "awe-inspiring".
Sarah Perry, chair of judges, mentioned Taneja's ambition was "breath-taking".
The prize recognises debut novelists, with the runners-up being Gail Honeyman, for Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and Paula Cocozza, for How to Be Human.
Perry and her fellow judges, broadcaster Samira Ahmed and Waterstones' head of fiction Chris White, mentioned the three shortlisted works had been "bravely and urgently about the way we live now".
Perry, writer of The Ess3x Serpent, mentioned: "We were struck by how three such different books could all deal with, and comment on, the themes of loneliness and isolation."
She added of Taneja: "I beloved the sheer ambition of the e-bookthe concept that for her first e-book, she mentioned: 'I'll rewrite King Lear as a multi-voice novel, set in up to date India'.
"It's awe-inspiring, and she totally managed to carry it off. It's just incredible. The fact it had such huge ambition is breath-taking."
Perry mentioned it was a "richly compelling and vividly peopled novel", that was stuffed with "tasty detail" and texture.
She also stated that the judges discovered themselves shaking their heads, asking: "If this is her first novel, what extraordinary work will come next?"
Taneja, a human rights activist and educational, wins a £10,000 prize, which is to go in direction of work on the writer's second novel.
Her debut is about towards the backdrop of the 2011 anti-corruption riots in India. It tells the story of what occurs when an ageing patriarch, Devraj, leaves his firm to his daughters Gargi, Radha and Sita.
The prize was arrange in reminiscence of writer and literary agent Desmond Elliott, who died in 2003.
Previous recipients embrace Eimear McBride, Francis Spufford, Ali Shaw and Claire Fuller.
We That Are Young and McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing had been each revealed by Galley Beggar Press, an impartial writer run by a husband-and-wife staff.