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Jon McGregor [1976-0] British

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Novelist

Jon McGregor is a British novelist and short story writer. In 2002, his first novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize as its youngest contender. His second novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2006. In 2012, his third novel was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award. The New York Times has labelled him a "wicked British writer".

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It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.		101
It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.		102
People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.		103
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.		104
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.		105
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.		106
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.		107
Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.		108

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