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U.P. girl wins young author award

LUCKNOW : Shreya Maheshwari of the Uttar Pradesh capital on Saturday won the prestigious Classmate Young Author 2005 award for her story `Stairway to Nowhere'.

Shreya is the second Lucknow girl to receive this award after Jyoti Iyer, who won in 2004. The winner gets seven days free tour to London.

The class XII student of Loreto Convent was feted for her story `Stairway to Nowhere' in Mumbai by a jury comprising noted writers Nandita Puri, Neeru Nanda, Alpana Chaudhary, Bakthiar Dadabhoy,and headed by Ruskin Bond.

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