Like all self-possessed people, he was prey to doubt.
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Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.
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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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