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Sat 07 Jul 2008Not just a European author but 'a writer of world status'
JOHN McGAHERN wrote the same novel and the same short story "again and again and again", featuring such familiar figures as the violently oppressive father and the devout mother who dies young, an international seminar in his honour was told yesterday.
These characters and recurring themes such as movement from country to city were the tools of his workshop, or McGahern's way of letting the reader see how he created a fictional world, Prof David Malcolm from the University of Gdansk said.
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