Patrick Frenchwas born in England in 1966 and studied literature at Edinburgh University. He is the author ofYounghusband; Liberty or Death; Tibet, Tibet;andThe World Is What It Is, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize. French is the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.
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