Red Dog

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<p>'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it.</p><p>I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.'<b>Louis de Bernieres</b></p>

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<b>Louis de Bernières</b>is the best-selling author of<i>Captain Corellis Mandolin</i>, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are<i>The Dust That Falls From Dreams</i>,<i>Birds Without Wings</i>and<i>A Partisans Daughter</i>, a collection of stories,<i>Notwithstanding,</i>and a collection of poetry,<i>Imagining Alexandria.</i>

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