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He has good reason to thank the president. Without Trump, Wolff would not have made this year's rankings of the world's highest-paid authors.

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The United Kingdom may be teetering on the Brexit abyss but you, Diagram Prize voters, have plumped for European unity in the only referendum that really matters.