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Piers Paul Read

British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1941 · age 85

Piers Paul Read FRSL is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. Read was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history.

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1988James Tait Black Memorial PrizeAward1970Somerset Maugham AwardAward1969Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeAwardHawthornden PrizeAward1941Born7 March 1941

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize1988
Somerset Maugham Award1970
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize1969
Hawthornden Prize1969

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1941 · age 85

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