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rdf:type	Writer
rdfs:label	John Irving
rdfs:comment	Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers. Five of his novels have been adapted to film. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, A Widow for One Year) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1999 for his script The Cider House Rules.
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foaf:homepage	http://john-irving.com/
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notableworks	The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Birth Date	1942-03-02
Name	John Irving
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Birth Place	dbkwik:resource/qzTzfEZjOKHNSoEStzbrJA==
Influences	Thomas Hardy Kurt Vonnegut Charles Dickens dbkwik:resource/22wVW4z8o3f-tyTLsRj3zQ== dbkwik:resource/5TPL8aFwhncZ-hQ3SyScCw== dbkwik:resource/zXTWlDtQbtVPDya2WdCj6Q==
Awards	dbkwik:resource/0G7WWT7DqCvmV-dZFZnTlw==
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Website	dbkwik:resource/20U7C2VkqwkLgOXXEv10uA==
Birth name	John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
abstract	Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers. Five of his novels have been adapted to film. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, A Widow for One Year) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1999 for his script The Cider House Rules.
is Author of	The World According to Garp
is influenced of	Kurt Vonnegut