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News from Nowhere by A. L. Kennedy

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Published: 07/09/2017
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A. L. Kennedy's keynote address delivered at the British Library for European Literature Night on Wednesday 10 May 2017

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Ian Thomson is an acclaimed biographer, reporter and literary critic. His biography, Primo Levi: A Life, won the Royal Society of Literature’s W.H. Heinemann Award. His reportage, The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica, was awarded the Royal Society of …


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