Authors Last A Long Time, But....

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Author Maurice Leitch, notable for his Guardian Fiction Prize-winning novel Poor Lazarus and for his Whitbred Prize-winning work Silver City, died at 90 years: Ireland and BBC Radio 4.

https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/28/maurice-leitch-dead-irish-author-dies-90-19573760/

he was also known for his writing work for BBC Northern

[YoungWillz 21,046]

David Benedictus, writer probably best known for the first Winnie-The Pooh novel in over 80 years Return To The Hundred Acre Wood, reportedly dead: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/west-end-jolyon-maugham-cambridge-david-bbc-b2426553.html

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070836/

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Anthony Holden (wiki), British writer, broadcaster and critic, dead at 76 and straight to a Telegraph obit.

Wrote biographies on Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Laurence Olivier and King Charles III. 

Rather random but also the first President of the International Federation of Poker (IFP).

[The Old Crem 3,605]

Is search not working properly. Some recent posts not showing up. 

 

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Dione Venables, also know as DG Finlay, English novelist and publisher, has died aged 92. Telegraph Announcement

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1 minute ago, The Old Crem said:

Dione Venables, also know as DG Finlay, English novelist and publisher, has died aged 92. Telegraph Announcement

Ok, you are back on "Ignore".

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Judy Balaban, mentioned as a possibility for 2022, dead at 91.

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31 minutes ago, drol said:

Judy Balaban, mentioned as a possibility for 2022, dead at 91.

Indeed a pointless punt by Perhaps. 

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5 hours ago, drol said:

Judy Balaban, mentioned as a possibility for 2022, dead at 91.

Interestinglg her husband during that period, producer Jay Kanter (wiki) is still alive and turns 97 in December.

 

Judy supposedly met Grace Kelly through his bubble. I doubt he would get a QO though.

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Report of the death of Jan Needle, author and screenwiter: https://northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/books/obituary-jan-needle-provocative-childrens-author-and-screenwriter/

 

Wrote spin off books for Grange Hill and Tucker's Luck. Wrote a sequel to Wind In The Willows called Wild Wood.

 

For television, he wrote for Brookside and The Bill with forays into Sooty and Count Duckula, but his best work was reserved for a docu-drama series called Truckers, about truckers trying to survive in Thatcher's Britain.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624130/

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I've been on a bit of a travel literature binge recently.  Two tomes were written by noted authors, now both octogenarians, who have never been mentioned on this forum before, so I thought I'd put their names - and the books I read -  out there.

 

Colin Thubron (84)  The Amur River

William Least Heat-Moon (84) Blue Highways

 

My money would be on Thubron to go first, largely based on his evocative account of being thrown from a horse in the Mongolian hinterlands.  An experience which he struggled to recover from.

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On 04/11/2021 at 11:32, Bibliogryphon said:

The Booker Prize was awarded yesterday and so I realised my list has not been updated since 2018 but the past winners are showing remarkable staying power

 

Surviving Booker Prize Winners

 

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)

Anna Burns (1962)

Bernadine Evaristo (1959)

Douglas Stuart (1976)

Damon Galgut (1963)

Report that AS Byatt may have writ her last: 

Usual confirmations required, but a fair source.

 

DDP pick.

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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Report that AS Byatt may have writ her last: 

Usual confirmations required, but a fair source.

 

DDP pick.

Hmm, the Xpost has now been deleted.

 

AS Byatt lives...for now.

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On 26/10/2023 at 19:42, YoungWillz said:

Report of the death of Jan Needle, author and screenwiter: https://northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/books/obituary-jan-needle-provocative-childrens-author-and-screenwriter/

 

Wrote spin off books for Grange Hill and Tucker's Luck. Wrote a sequel to Wind In The Willows called Wild Wood.

 

For television, he wrote for Brookside and The Bill with forays into Sooty and Count Duckula, but his best work was reserved for a docu-drama series called Truckers, about truckers trying to survive in Thatcher's Britain.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624130/

Might as well complete the hat-trick, Guardian Obit for Jan Needle.

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16 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Hmm, the Xpost has now been deleted.

 

AS Byatt lives...for now.

AS Byatt Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/17/as-byatt-author-and-critic-dies-aged-87

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16 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Hmm, the Xpost has now been deleted.

 

AS Byatt lives...for now.

Confirmed to have died now. 
 

The Guardian

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Just now, The Old Crem said:

Confirmed to have died now. 
 

The Guardian

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2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

AS Byatt Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/17/as-byatt-author-and-critic-dies-aged-87

 

Like many, I remember where I was when I read Possession. Sitting in a chair going "FFS, why are there still three hundred pages to go?"

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Stick out your Byatt for the rizzler

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Is survived by her younger sister Margaret Drabble for those who are looking for replacement names

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I must admit when I selected her for my Dames team I wasn’t aware who she was and I didn’t expect her to get a BBC Breaking News alert either. 

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1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Is survived by her younger sister Margaret Drabble for those who are looking for replacement names

Can’t be many sisters who have both been given damehoods. 

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1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:

Can’t be many sisters who have both been given damehoods. 

 

Can't think of any others

 

If Marie Eagle or Sophie Thompson get there we could have some

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5 hours ago, msc said:

 

Like many, I remember where I was when I read Possession. Sitting in a chair going "FFS, why are there still three hundred pages to go?"

 

She used to bank with us and she was always very pleasant. I used to feel a bit guilty that I'd never read any of her work.

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I read Possession years ago. Don't remember much about ti.