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Virginie Despentes

Writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes was born in Nancy, France, in June 1969

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Lewis DeSoto

Lewis DeSoto was born in South Africa and immigrated to Canada as a teenager in the 1960s. There, he trained as a painter rather than a writer and remains more active with the brush than the pen

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Edward Docx

Until he was 13, Edward Docx thought he was part Indian. Then a confession by his ailing grandmother revealed she wasn’t his grandmother – and he was in fact part Russian

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell was born in Jalandhar, India. A versatile writer, his work includes novels, plays, travel writing, criticism, short stories and poems

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Yvvette Edwards

The seed for Yvvette Edwards’s novel was sown when, 20 years earlier, a friend showed her a newspaper article about her former partner being convicted of the murder of his next girlfriend

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Gerard Donovan

The Irish writer Gerard Donovan was longlisted for his debut novel, Schopenhauer's Telescope, a history-infused philosophical tale of stoicism, death and inhumanity

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Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore, a prolific poet, novelist and writer for children and young adults, died of cancer at 64 in 2017. Her last collection of poetry won the Costa Poetry award posthumously

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The Booker Prize 1986

Kingsley Amis, a two-time shortlistee, became the prize’s biggest fan when The Old Devils triumphed. The award, he decided, ‘was a wonderful indication of literary merit’

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The Man Booker International Prize 2017

David Grossman and his translator Jessica Cohen took the prize with a novel about a stand-up comic unravelling on stage – savage humour and excoriating pain proving to be mirror images

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Madeleine St John

Born in Sydney, Madeleine St John graduated from Sydney University and lived most of her life in London. She was the author of four novels