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New Zealand author Lloyd Jones’ “Mister Pip,” a novel about a girl’s affinity for Charles Dickens, and Julia Whitty’s “The Fragile Edge,” an exploration of life in the South Pacific, are winners of the 12th annual Kiriyama Prize, given for “literature that contributes to greater understanding of and among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia.” . . . TV’s favorite science geek, William Petersen, will return to “CSI.”
