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telegraph.co.uk at 16 Feb 2009 05:18 am
Ian McEwan has told how he gave fellow novelist Salman Rushdie shelter in a country cottage after the fatwa calling for his assassination was issued.
telegraph.co.uk at 28 Jan 2009 05:17 am
British authors Ian McEwan and Martin Amis have paid tribute to US novelist John Updike who died overnight aged 76.
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