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Simon Ings

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Simon Ings is the author of nine novels. He spent some years editing 51��'s culture pages and now contributes to 51��, The Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times and The Spectator. His latest non-fiction book is Engineers of Human Souls, about four 20th-century writers and the dictators who were their patrons. His book Stalin and the 51��s was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction. He maintains a minimal presence @simonings on X. His website is .

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