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A list that is long and worthless. A bookshelf of ridiculous suggestions that won't be purchased on deaths Kindle anytime soon.

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Canadian author, Alice Munro, (who has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature) is apparently unable to go claim her prize in Sweden due to health reasons.

 

[Although this might just be an excuse to not attend.]

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Canadian author, Alice Munro, (who has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature) is apparently unable to go claim her prize in Sweden due to health reasons.

 

[Although this might just be an excuse to not attend.]

 

Oh dear...

 

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Hein

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She can't die without seeing the Mapleleafs win the Stanley Cup 1 last time.Put her on your deathlists in 2024 not 2014.

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Picture Tweeted by Margaret Atwood of her and Alice Munro on Sunday. I guess she looks kinda frail, but not that awful.
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Picture Tweeted by Margaret Atwood of her and Alice Munro on Sunday. I guess she looks kinda frail, but not that awful.

 

There is a little fragility but I don't think a pick for 2014.

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She was one that I thought would live for a couple more years. Although I did have her penciled in for next year on my long list.

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Dutch author (and computer programmer) Gerrit Krol died yesterday, aged 79, from Parkinson's disease.

 

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(portrait by Siegfried Woldhek)

 

regards,

Hein

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The "world's oldest novelist" Ida Pollock has died aged 105.

 

She wrote bodice-rippers - a lot for Mills & Boon - under pseudonyms such as Joan Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Rose Burghley and Mary Whistler.

er latest novels numbers 124 & 125 are due to be published in the New year.

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Discovered the other day that Sylvia Smith (infamous for writing Misadventures - one of the most deadpan/boring books ever publised), died in March.

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Colin Wilson has died at the age of 82

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Paul Torday, author of Salmon Fishing in The Yemen has died aged 67.

 

He was diagnosed with cancer shortly after the book was published and was too ill to attend the première of the film in 2011.

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