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Niall Griffiths writes about passion, pain and life on the margins of society, with remote rural Wales as the backdrop both to his novels and his own life. His is a very different voice to that of modern urban cool. Speaking of fellow writers Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby Niall Griffiths says, 'You read these books and think, Oh, Britain is a multicultural country, or, Oh, it's quite difficult to bring up a child in north London. Why is that so popular? It's so mediocre and insipid. It's symptomatic of how far our standards have dropped. No striving, no experimentation, no innovation. It's nothing. It's dull, boring, colourless paste.'
Griffiths is a man of strong opinions and a writer of strong language and images whose latest novel, Stump, has just won the Academi/Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year 2004. In a departure from his previous three novels, Stump has moments of great comedy as two villains in a clapped-out Morris Minor leave Liverpool to track down a one-armed gangster somewhere on the west coast of Wales.
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