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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
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Belfast
Ireland
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Woolf
Sounding
Virginia

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