Engagements with art, books, music, strictly following the pleasure principle.
'My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise,
a captive as Racine, the man of craft,
drawn through his maze of iron composition
by the incomparable wandering voice of Phรจdre.'
Novelist and poet. Booker Prize finalist, Granta Best of Young British Novelists, E.M. Forster Award, European Union Prize for Literature, translated into a dozen languages and so on. Londoner in Canada.
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