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The author
Paul West
Before A Year in the Merde
, Paul had never written anything longer than a report on
British coffee-drinking habits.
Inspired partly by the culture shock on his arrival in Paris
in September 2002, and partly by the enviable sales figures
of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence, Paul started keeping
a diary of his experiences. He turned the journal into a novel
when Anglo-French relations were at their worst during the
Iraq War of spring 2003.
Paul is still living in Paris with his French girlfriend and
her lingerie collection.
Paul would like to thank the French government for introducing
the 35-hour week and giving him time to do more interesting
things on a Friday afternoon than work. Merci.
There is another Paul West who
is quite famous in North America. He has won amongst other
things, the Aga Khan Fiction Prize. But we are happy with
our Paul West, even though he has so far
won nothing more prestigious than a jug of beer in his local
pub quiz.
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