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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Knight

‘Surreal fable’ by Derek Jarman to be published for the first time

Derek Jarman holding his hands to each side of his head and grinning
The late artist and film-maker Derek Jarman, who would have been 80 this year. Photograph: Prototype

An unpublished short story by the late artist and film-maker Derek Jarman will be available to buy for the first time later this year.

Jarman, who is best known for his films Sebastiane, Caravaggio and Blue, wrote Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, his only piece of narrative fiction, in 1971. More than 50 years later, and marking the year its author would have been 80, the story will finally become available in a special edition book to be published in November by House Sparrow Press, an imprint of independent house Prototype.

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