John McGahern
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Michael Frayn's latest novel, Skios , will be launched on Thursday. It will be his eleventh novel. He has also written or translated 31 plays, and published 12 works of non-fiction, including a collection of his journalism, Travels With a Typewriter (200 Full Article at The Independent
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John McGahern (November 12, 1934 – March 30, 2006) was an Irish writer (in English). Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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