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Georges Magnane (1907 - 1985) was the pen-name of Rene Catinaud, born into a farming family in the Limousin, central France. He went from there to the Ecole Normale d'instituteurs in Paris before completing his studies in Oxford. As well as being a teacher and novelist, Magnane was a journalist (he covered the 1948 London Olympics for Sartre's L'humanite) a pioneer of the sociology of sport in France, a translator (notably of Updike, Nabokov and Capote), and a scriptwriter for theater and film. Jerome Fletcher was Director of Writing at Dartington College of Arts and Associate Professor of Performance Writing at Falmouth University. He has published novels and poetry for children, translations, and experimental digital texts as well as performance works. Along with Alex Martin, he has produced several titles for Dedalus including The Decadent Cookbook, The Decadent Gardener. Former real tennis professional and elver catcher, Jerome Fletcher was Director of Writing at The Decadent Traveller and The Decadent Sportsman. He lives in France near Limoges.

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