Even at 19 he played a doddery old man in a production of JM Barrie's play Mary Rose.

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An established author is sought to bring the ageless boy from JM Barrie's 1904 work into the 21st Century.

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Among the other academicians named at Wednesday's announcement at the British Library in London are AS Byatt, JM Coetzee, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, David Mitchell, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

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