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Sat 02 Feb 2009Rare and brave man who elevated our own experience of life
HE WAS a hero; there is no other word. Writer and witness Christopher Nolan watched and listened and felt, he felt powerfully and lived a heroic life sustained by his curiosity and his faith in language.
As if he had been locked in a dark cave, he fought to reach the light and did reach that light. The night in London in 1988 when he won the Whitbread Book of the Year, against strong opposition including Seamus Heaney’s poetry winner, a beautiful collection, The Haw Lantern, people were more than moved, we were empowered.
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