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The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England.

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My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on the radio and being quite shocked that he had a South African accent. I didn't know there were any South African poets.

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Someone once pointed out that there are quite a lot of animals in my books, and I'm sure that is something to do with 'The Wind in the Willows.' I must have picked up a rather anthropomorphic view of them.

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I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it took four years before being published.

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Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

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I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

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So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

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It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

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I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.

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'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to make sense of the universe in which they live - a universe strange, febrile, and utterly unique.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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