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Will Self

WILL SELF is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including Great Apes ; How the Dead Live , which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year; The Butt , winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; Umbrella , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Shark ; Phone ; and the memoir Will . He lives in South London.

Personality Profile For Will Self

Will Self

The following is a personality profile of Will Self based on his work.

Will Self is shrewd and skeptical.

He is empathetic, he feels what others feel and is compassionate towards them. He is independent as well: he has a strong desire to have time to himself. But, Will Self is also philosophical: he is open to and intrigued by new ideas and loves to explore them.

More than most people, his choices are driven by a desire for discovery.

He is also relatively unconcerned with tradition: he cares more about making his own path than following what others have done. Considers helping others to guide a large part of what he does: he thinks it is important to take care of the people around him.


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