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How the Tiger Got Its Stripes

by Nicholas Hogg

Nicholas Hogg was born in Leicester in 1974.

After graduating from the University of East London with a psychology degree, he travelled widely, living in Japan, Fiji and America. He is now settled in London teaching literary skills to refugees.

Winner of the New Writing Ventures prize for fiction in 2005, and twice shortlisted for the Eric Gregory award for young poets, he has recently completed his first novel, Show Me the Sky.

More of his work may be read on his website.

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