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Festival attracts literary locals ; Dartmoor has proved to be an inspiration for generations of writers, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Alice Oswald's poem Dart, which won the T S Eliot Prize in 2002.

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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20080426
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Dartmoor has proved to be an inspiration for generations of writers, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Alice Oswald's poem Dart, which won the T S Eliot Prize in 2002.

Now it has led to the creation of the first Festival of Dartmoor Literature, conceived to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Dartmoor Society.

Despite its infancy, several big literary names have agreed to take part, including Alice Oswald; Tim Pears, whose novel In A Place of Fallen Leaves, set in the Teign Valley, won him the Hawthornden Prize in 1993, and Salley Vickers, whose ...

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Festival attracts literary locals ; Dartmoor has proved to be an inspiration for generations of writers, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Alice Oswald's poem Dart, which won the T S Eliot Prize in 2002.

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