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Language learner wins 2009 prize
Dunja Kuhn, a 22-year-old German girl who has been in England for nearly a year working as an au pair, has won the 2009 national prize draw for Six Book Challenge completers sponsored by Costa Coffee.
Dunja got involved in the Six Book Challenge through an English conversation class in Battersea Park Library. She read several titles either specially written for emergent readers - Not a Star by Nick Hornby and Girl on the Platform by Josephine Cox - or short versions of classics such as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Macbeth. But her favourite book is Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden which she read first as in an abridged form and then in the full version.
Dunja was a keen reader when she was younger and has read all the Harry Potter titles in German. But she had not read for a while before she came to England and wanted to improve her English. She feels the Six Book Challenge and the support of the library has helped her to do this. She is now enrolled on a drama summer school at Battersea Arts Centre. 'It's really amazing that I won the prize!' says Dunja. 'I still can't really believe it."
Dunja wins a trip to a West End show for two, an overnight stay in a London hotel and spending money.
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