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Blake Morrison

Poet and author · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1950 · age 76

Philip Blake Morrison is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father?

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1988E. M. Forster AwardAwardFellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1985Somerset Maugham AwardAward1980Eric Gregory AwardAward1950Born8 October 1950

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E. M. Forster Award1988
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1988
Somerset Maugham Award1985
Eric Gregory Award1980

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(1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and was made into a drama film of the same title. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If (1997).

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Writers
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Born 1950 · age 76

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