Like all self-possessed people, he was prey to doubt.
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That will not bring back the things we love: the high, clear days and the blue icecaps on the mountains; the lines of white poplars fluttering in the wind, and the long white prayer flags.
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Birth: | 13th May, 1940 |
Death: | 18th January, 1989 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield, England. He was an English writer whose best known works are In Patagonia and The Songlines. Although he was often referred to as a travel writer, a term he eschewed, Chatwin was also a novelist and a journalist who interviewed figures such as Indira Gandhi and André Malraux. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill and his novel Utz was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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