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  <name><![CDATA[Michel Faber]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch writer of fiction. He writes in English.

Faber was born in The Hague, The Netherlands. He and his parents emigrated to Australia in 1967. He attended primary and secondary school in the Melbourne suburbs of Boronia and Bayswater, then attended the University Of Melbourne, studying Dutch, Philosophy, Rhetoric, English Language (a course involving translation and criticism of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts) and English Literature. He graduated in 1980. He worked as a cleaner and at various other casual jobs, before training as a nurse at Marrickville and Western Suburbs hospitals in Sydney. He nursed until the mid-1990s. In 1993 he, his second wife and family emigrated to Scotland, where they still reside.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>The Hague</hometown>  <born_at>04/13/1960</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Crimson Petal and the White]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Under the Skin]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Courage Consort]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Vanilla Bright like Eminem]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Some Rain Must Fall: And Other Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Fahrenheit Twins]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Fire Gospel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The 199 Steps]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[La Rose pourpre et le lys  , t. 01]]></title>
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