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Blair Purvis

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in Melbourne, Australia

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Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Psychology

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Blair Purvis was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Scottish immigrant parents – growing up in the city’s outer east. Having spent considerable time living abroad in the U.S., Canada and Europe and travelling throughout the Middle East and Asia, he returned to his hometown, where learning languages and writing have become his passion.

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	Have Colourful Dreams, Sir by Masoud Shakarami (Goodreads Author), Blair Purvis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kioomars Ghanbari Azar (Translator) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Born from Mauritanian Sands it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Blair Purvis's Blog: Incoherent Ramblings of a Writer

Drowning in a Deluge of Words

I’m old.

I say that not to garner sympathy but to declare access to eras forgotten or unknown to most. Here I sit in this year’s annual writers’ conference auditorium, packed with emerging authors eager to gorge on pearls of wisdom tossed out by the floodlit elite. Faces within the audience are mostly young, fresh-faced and optimistic. I close my eyes while we await the tardy guest speakers to take

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