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    "Julian Barnes",
    "Martin Amis",
    "Nigel Farage",
    "Gabriel García Márquez",
    "Ian McEwan",
    "Salman Rushdie",
    "Granta",
    "Christopher Hitchens",
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  "textContent": "The 80-year-old British author has published ‘Departures,’ which he says will be his last book",
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