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What was Nick Cave known for?
Nicholas Edward Cave AO is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Where were some of Nick Cave's screenplays?
Cave wrote the screenplay for The Proposition, a film about bushrangers in the Australian outback during the late 19th century.
Are there any other interesting aspects about Nick Cave besides being an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and that he wrote the screenplay for The Proposition?
Nick Cave's music is generally characterised by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence
What else was Nick Cave known for besides being an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and that he wrote the screenplay for The Proposition?
While he was based in West Berlin, Nick Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel.

Question: What was the name of his novel
Self-contained rewrite: What was the name of Nick Cave's debut novel?