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Background
- Born in
- Bexhill-on-Sea
- Educated at
- Merton CollegeWestminster School
- Awards
- 🏆 James Tait Black Memorial Prize🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
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Trending topics shown first"The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life."
"People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms."
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Timeline
1913
Born
Birth1991
Died
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