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Mark Lawson talks to Michael Ondaatje who won the Booker Prize with his novel The English Patient. Now he's publishing a poetry collection and a new book The Cat's Table, which depicts a boy journeying from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. The author made exactly the same journey, but is adamant that this new work is a fiction. He explains why. Producer Stephen Hughes.
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