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Should fiction authors get public funding?
A report commissioned by Arts Council England suggested writers of literary fiction should get financial support in light of falling sales.
Author Jilly Cooper and Henry Sutton, senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of East Anglia go head-to-head on whether they think authors would deserve the money.
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