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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

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But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

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Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

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Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

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It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

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As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 19th, 1961

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