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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Toibin: 'learn to look innocent' when writing about relatives

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"If you ask in advance" to put a real life anecdote into a novel "people always say no" says Irish novelist Colm Toibin He advises authors to "just write it" and "learn to look really innocent" when people ask if a character is based on them. This clip is originally from Afternoon Edition on January 28 2015.

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