Some on the guest list would be immediately familiar to you: Seth Klarman, Jeremy Grantham, Jean-Marie Eveillard, Bill Miller.

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Andrew Miller won last year for his fictional story Pure, about an engineer named Jean-Baptiste Baratte working in a Parisian cemetery in the run-up to the French Revolution.

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His former daughter-in-law Lesley Miller said at the time he deeply missed his wife of more than 50 years, Jean, who died three years before him.

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