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Peter Dorward
Peter Dorward was born in St Andrews in 1963. Having been a hop-picker, an aid-worker in the Bolivian Andes, pub musician and a runner for a film crew, he now works as a GP and medical teacher in Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner Deborah and their two boys. Peter Dorward is a winner of the 2000 Canongate/Waterstone’s short story prize and the 1997 Fish short story competition. Nightingale, set in Bologna in 1980, is his first novel.
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