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Chair of judges, Paul Muldoon, who has previously won the TS Eliot prize, and fellow judges Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul, said: "Self-Portrait as Othello is a book with large ambitions that are met with great imaginative capacity, freshness and technical flair.