Poetic Obituaries: [Dame Muriel Spark's] first collection,

first collection, The Fanfarlo and Other Verse, was published in 1952. A year earlier, too, she had entered a short story competition run by the Observer newspaper. Her poem, The Seraph and the Zambesi, out of nearly 7000 entries, won the £250 first prize.

from The Guardian: Dame Muriel Spark

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