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The general consensus is that creativity is a gift bestowed on an elite few and
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Author and broadcaster Joseph O’Connor is to receive the 2012 Irish PEN Award for outstanding contribution to
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It was a particular landscape, which led me to write my first novel. Over thirteen
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