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    Paul Nizon (born 19 December 1929 in Bern) is a Swiss art historian and writer. The son of a Jewish chemist from Vitebsk and a Swiss mother, after leaving...
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    (2006) A. L. Kennedy (2007) Ágota Kristóf (2008) Per Olov Enquist (2009) Paul Nizon (2010) Javier Marías (2011) Patrick Modiano (2012) John Banville (2013)...
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    was while studying for it that she met École Normale students Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Nizan, and René Maheu (who gave her the lasting nickname "Castor"...
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    (2006) A. L. Kennedy (2007) Ágota Kristóf (2008) Per Olov Enquist (2009) Paul Nizon (2010) Javier Marías (2011) Patrick Modiano (2012) John Banville (2013)...
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    (2006) A. L. Kennedy (2007) Ágota Kristóf (2008) Per Olov Enquist (2009) Paul Nizon (2010) Javier Marías (2011) Patrick Modiano (2012) John Banville (2013)...
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    (2006) A. L. Kennedy (2007) Ágota Kristóf (2008) Per Olov Enquist (2009) Paul Nizon (2010) Javier Marías (2011) Patrick Modiano (2012) John Banville (2013)...
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    Unit documentary, not published separately except as a programme note). Paul Bunyan (1941, libretto for operetta by Benjamin Britten; not published until...
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    (2006) A. L. Kennedy (2007) Ágota Kristóf (2008) Per Olov Enquist (2009) Paul Nizon (2010) Javier Marías (2011) Patrick Modiano (2012) John Banville (2013)...
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    domaine de la lutte, published by Maurice Nadeau (translated in English by Paul Hammond and published as Whatever). It reads as a first-person narrative...
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    marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921...
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