Samuel Coleridge

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Hugh O’Conor - ‘the cheery Dubliner has emerged as one of our busiest hyphenates.’ Photograph: Tom Honan
Hugh O’Conor: ‘I had to go to Irish college rather than be in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’

Hugh O’Conor is pondering the years after his breakthrough role in My Left Foot. “I didn’t do some jobs I was offered,” he says. “My parents said I h(...)

Miriam Toews: spent 18 years in a small, Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies
Brought to Book – Miriam Toews: ‘Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!’
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  • June 16, 2014, 01:37

Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer. She won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel, A Complicated Kindness, and the Rogers Writers’ Tru(...)