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Evan Shapiro

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The second of four children born to would-be bohemian parents, Evan grew up on a diet of independent cinema, junk TV and chocolate biscuits. As a toddler he drank Dettol and shampoo and stuck forks into power-points. He was often reminded by his family that he was lucky to have survived past the age of five. While his parents blamed him for being dangerously active and carelessly inquisitive, he lays the responsibility squarely at their feet for repeatedly leaving Dettol, shampoo and forks within his grasp.

He likes to define the resulting confusion from his upbringing as his perspective which he now relentlessly channels into works of fiction.

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