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Wed 06 Jun 2010How cutting cabbages forged a future of fantastic proportions
Derek Landy, whose book ‘Skulduggery Pleasant’ has been voted Irish Book of the Decade, spent six years working on his family farm in north County Dublin before his writing career took off – an experience he says helped form him
DEREK LANDY is a karate black belt and has trained thousands of children to defend themselves in order, he says, to form a munchkin army to leap to his aid should enemies ever attack. (Or, in peacetime, vote for him in an online poll, perhaps).
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