Authors Last A Long Time, But....

[YoungWillz 21,050]

53 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

Dead aged 34 apparently - a DDP pick.

This is good enough for the Hare's.http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/71387/20170916/christian-apologist-nabeel-qureshi-dies-at-34.htm  

 

Joey slipping...

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Just now, YoungWillz said:

This is good enough for the Hare's.http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/71387/20170916/christian-apologist-nabeel-qureshi-dies-at-34.htm  

 

Joey slipping...

Yeah, I knew that was coming...

[Thatcher 2,417]

Barring an obituary from The Daily Express to use him as a role model for how all muslims ought to live their lives, or perhaps one from The Guardian I'm not certain he'll get one. Don't think his story has been followed at all in the UK media.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Just now, Thatcher said:

Edward Albee, playwright, has died aged 88.

Didn't he die last year? 

[Thatcher 2,417]

Just now, Joey Russ said:

Didn't he die last year? 

You're absolutely right! My mistake 

[YoungWillz 21,050]

1 minute ago, Joey Russ said:

Didn't he die last year? 

Yes, yes he did.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Hm. Thinking an obit could be very plausible for Qureshi. He got an obit from The Washington Post, so he could very much get an obit from the UK. 

Washington Post is a qualifying obit for Windy City, no? Someone has him there. Let me check...

EDIT: Nah, it wasn't. But I'm expecting the NYT to eliminate the obit worry in that dead pool...

[msc 18,477]

Still no QO for Qureshi, but he did get one for the Alt Obits pool. This puts (our?) Cancerous Hatred 90 points ahead of the unstoppable G. Tierney with 3 and a bit months left.

 

Also, it tells me I heavily overestimated the fame criteria for the game!

[Death Impends 7,977]

Jiroemon's ability to sniff out terminal cases in other languages might not be too much help for DDP purposes, but is a godsend for a pool where all that's needed for a QO is any coverage in a reputable news source, regardless of language.

 

(not in ref to Qureshi, mind, but quite a few of his other hits)

[msc 18,477]

4 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

Jiroemon's ability to sniff out terminal cases in other languages might not be too much help for DDP purposes, but is a godsend for a pool where all that's needed for a QO is any coverage in a reputable news source, regardless of language.

 

(not in ref to Qureshi, mind, but quite a few of his other hits)

 

Carston Mohren and the Swiss opera singer, for example.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

2 minutes ago, msc said:

 

Carston Mohren and the Swiss opera singer, for example.

I think gcreptile knew about Mohren since he played him in the Hare's Dead Pool. But there's a couple on there that I'm like how do I even know their ill? 

[Death Impends 7,977]

gcreptile may have had a built-in advantage as to why he knew about Mohren...

[drol 11,950]

Well, regarding AODeadpool, an IbTimes obituary in March was not enough to give me points for Dennis Stamp. I think that was just unfair.

[msc 18,477]

He wasn't booked, you see.

[Thatcher 2,417]

Myrna Lamb, American playwright and feminist, has died aged 87. 

[gcreptile 10,972]

I can't remember where, but someone somewhere suggested french writer Anne Bert because she considered euthanasia.

 

She died on Oct. 2nd:

 

https://www.humanite.fr/de-vincent-humbert-anne-bert-quinze-ans-643684

[YoungWillz 21,050]

On ‎10‎/‎31‎/‎2016 at 14:27, Bibliogryphon said:

Booker Prize Winners Updated for 2016 Winner

 

Booker Prize Winners updated for 2014 & 2015 Winners

V S Naipaul (1932)
John Berger (1926)
David Storey (1933)
Salman Rushdie (1947)
Thomas Keneally (1935)
J M Coetzee (1940)
Keri Hume (1947)
Penelope Lively (1933)
Peter Carey (1943)
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
A S Byatt (1936)
Ben Okri (1959)
Michael Ondaatje (1943)
Roddy Doyle (1958)
James Kelman (1946)
Pat Barker (1943)
Graham Swift (1949)
Arundhati Roy (1961)
Ian McEwan (1948)
Margaret Atwood (1939)
Yann Martel (1963)
DBC Pierre (1961)
Alan Hollinghurst (1954)
John Banville (1945)
Kiran Desai (1971)
Anne Enright (1962)
Aravind Adiga (1974)
Hilary Mantel (1952)
Howard Jacobson (1942)
Julian Barnes (1946)
Eleanor Catton (1985)

Richard Flanagan (1961)

Marlon James (1970)

Paul Beatty (1962)

Who will join the roll call later?

 

And more importantly, will anyone leave before 2018?

[CastAway 488]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Who will join the roll call later?

 

And more importantly, will anyone leave before 2018?

Isn't Berger dead from the list?

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

13 minutes ago, RishCast said:

Isn't Berger dead from the list?

Yes he died in January.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

 

V S Naipaul (1932)
David Storey (1933)
Salman Rushdie (1947)
Thomas Keneally (1935)
J M Coetzee (1940)
Keri Hume (1947)
Penelope Lively (1933)
Peter Carey (1943)
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
A S Byatt (1936)
Ben Okri (1959)
Michael Ondaatje (1943)
Roddy Doyle (1958)
James Kelman (1946)
Pat Barker (1943)
Graham Swift (1949)
Arundhati Roy (1961)
Ian McEwan (1948)
Margaret Atwood (1939)
Yann Martel (1963)
DBC Pierre (1961)
Alan Hollinghurst (1954)
John Banville (1945)
Kiran Desai (1971)
Anne Enright (1962)
Aravind Adiga (1974)
Hilary Mantel (1952)
Howard Jacobson (1942)
Julian Barnes (1946)
Eleanor Catton (1985)

Richard Flanagan (1961)

Marlon James (1970)

Paul Beatty (1962)

George Saunders (1958)

 

Updated for 2018 and to remove Berger

 

A S Byatt might be one to keep an eye on.

[CastAway 488]

44 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

 

V S Naipaul (1932)
David Storey (1933)
Salman Rushdie (1947)
Thomas Keneally (1935)
J M Coetzee (1940)
Keri Hume (1947)
Penelope Lively (1933)
Peter Carey (1943)
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
A S Byatt (1936)
Ben Okri (1959)
Michael Ondaatje (1943)
Roddy Doyle (1958)
James Kelman (1946)
Pat Barker (1943)
Graham Swift (1949)
Arundhati Roy (1961)
Ian McEwan (1948)
Margaret Atwood (1939)
Yann Martel (1963)
DBC Pierre (1961)
Alan Hollinghurst (1954)
John Banville (1945)
Kiran Desai (1971)
Anne Enright (1962)
Aravind Adiga (1974)
Hilary Mantel (1952)
Howard Jacobson (1942)
Julian Barnes (1946)
Eleanor Catton (1985)

Richard Flanagan (1961)

Marlon James (1970)

Paul Beatty (1962)

George Saunders (1958)

 

Updated for 2018 and to remove Berger

 

A S Byatt might be one to keep an eye on.

Also Naipul, simply based on his age

[Heef 166]

David Storey also died back in March.

[msc 18,477]

No word on her health, and she's not very Deathlisty, but it'd be cool to see Penelope Lively make the list one year. I swear there was a point where it seemed everyone I bumped into had had to read The Ghost of Thomas Kempe for school, and that's going over a few decades worth age differences there.

[Toast 16,140]

31 minutes ago, msc said:

No word on her health, and she's not very Deathlisty, but it'd be cool to see Penelope Lively make the list one year. I swear there was a point where it seemed everyone I bumped into had had to read The Ghost of Thomas Kempe for school, and that's going over a few decades worth age differences there.

 

Booker Prize winning author not Deathlisty?   I'd say she is. 

 

I've known of her for years, despite not having read any of her books, including the one you mention.  Very recently I did read one - The House In Norham Gardens.  I read it because it is set in Oxford, and I think we're all drawn to books about places we know.  It was really disappointing though  - nothing really happens, and apart from a fleeting visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum, there was not much sense of being in Oxford.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,346]

John Le Carre. 86 today! 

 

One of Britain's most successful authors John Le Carre turns 86 today and I think he's reaching an age, such is his fame, that he should at least be on the committees radar for consideration even vaguely!