Robert Irwin

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Robert Graham Irwin was born in Guildford, Surrey, on 23 August 1946 and died in London on 28 June 2024. He was a British academic and mediaevalist, briefly a professional juggler, and an author best known for his work in Arabian studies. The Arabian Nightmare (1983; revised 1987) was his first and best-known novel, a dream narrative set in medieval Cairo. His later fiction includes The Limits of Vision (1986), The Mysteries of Algiers (1988), Exquisite Corpse (1995), Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (1997), Satan Wants Me (1999), Wonders Will Never Cease (2016) and My Life Is Like a Fairy Tale (2019), as well as the Runes Have Been Cast sequence begun in 2021, which Andrew Crumey completed after his death.

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Books

• The Arabian Nightmare (1983) · The Arabian Nightmare Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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