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Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is the author of bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the Esquire Award for Non-Fiction) and Things My Mother Never Told Me. His poetry collections include Dark Glasses, which won the Dylan Thomas and Somerset Maugham prizes, Pendle Witches, which was illustrated by Paula Rego, and Shingle Street. He is also a novelist, critic, journalist and librettist. He lives in South London.