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Born December 28, 1934 • Scotland
Died December 29, 2019 (aged 85) • Glasgow • Scotland
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1992)
Notable Works “Lanark” • “Of Me and Others”
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Keith Waterhouse
British writer
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George Blake
British writer
Josephine Tey, 1934
Josephine Tey
Scottish author
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Peter Redgrove
English poet, novelist, and playwright
Portrait of Alan Alexander Milne, circa 1920, wearing a light suit and bow tie, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.
A.A. Milne
British author
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David Storey
British writer
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Robin Maugham
British author
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Paul Bailey
British author
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Simon Raven
English writer
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Emlyn Williams
Welsh actor
Phillpotts, Eden
Eden Phillpotts
British writer
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
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David Lodge
English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor
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Michael Frayn
British author and translator

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