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Radio 4,28 Jul 2016,30 mins

Evelyn Waugh, DBC Pierre, a literary postcard from Sweden

Open Book

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As a new biography of the writer comes out, Open Book offers a guide to the works of Evelyn Waugh. And Man Booker winner DBC Pierre tells Mariella Frostrup why he's written a 'how to' book about novel writing, offering advice on everything from writing convincing dialogue to incorporating real life moments into fiction. One of Sweden's leading contemporary writers, Jonas Hassen Khemiri. sends a literary postcard from Stockholm and one editor recommends a book from a rival publisher.

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