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So he dies Nobel Prize-free. Cruel fate...

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Wolfe and Roth, waiting on the proverbial third.

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45 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Wolfe and Roth, waiting on the proverbial third.

 

Get Clive Cussler to a medical check up quick just in case.

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Two coffins: The Crates of Roth.

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1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

Wolfe and Roth, waiting on the proverbial third.

 

 

 

This video, except it says "Don DeLillo".

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V S Naipaul (1932)
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)

Olga Tokarczuk (1962)

 

 

Updated for 2018 winner

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2 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

 

V S Naipaul (1932)
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)

Olga Tokarczuk (1962)

 

 

Updated for 2018 winner

I thought I had deleted that. She is not the 2018 winner only the international winner. The short list hasn't been published yet.

I am not firing on all cylinders today. 

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12 hours ago, gcreptile said:

So he dies Nobel Prize-free. Cruel fate...

 

Why didn't they like him?

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American Pastoral is a good book in the costume of a much longer, much less interesting book. Anyway RIP

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Jerry Hopkins, an author and veteran Rolling Stone writer that served as the magazine's Los Angeles corespondent in the late Sixties, died in Bangkok, Thailand on June 3rd after a long illness. He was 82. His wife Lamyai confirmed Hopkins' death.

In 1980, Hopkins wrote No One Here Gets Out Alive, the definitive Doors biography that was used as the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 movie.

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7 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Jerry Hopkins, an author and veteran Rolling Stone writer that served as the magazine's Los Angeles corespondent in the late Sixties, died in Bangkok, Thailand on June 3rd after a long illness. He was 82. His wife Lamyai confirmed Hopkins' death.

In 1980, Hopkins wrote No One Here Gets Out Alive, the definitive Doors biography that was used as the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 movie.

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That is somewhere on my bookshelves.  His co-author, Danny Sugerman, died in 2005, so the titular prophecy has been fulfilled.

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On 30/05/2018 at 22:41, Bibliogryphon said:

Was this who Drol was hinting at?

I mentioned him on the thread.

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2 minutes ago, lorna doom said:

Somebody posted about this author in a Facebook group born 27 October 1906......can't find a death -date for her which would make her just shy of 112 although I should imagine her death has gone unreported.   forhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/list/701436.Elizabeth_Lemarchand

 

Two seconds on Google brings up her current publisher:

 

Elizabeth Lemarchand was born in 1906. She became a teacher at The Godophin School in Salisbury. Her first book Death of an Old Girl was published in 1967. Elizabeth passed away in 2000 at the age of 94.

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Cathy MacPhail, one of those names whose books are always to be found in a local library, in a dire condition after severe stroke, apparently.

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On 19/06/2016 at 14:30, gcreptile said:

Very marginally famous writer Colin Butts has stage IV pancreatic cancer:

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/movies/movie-news/ibiza-writer-diagnosed-terminal-cancer-8227488#E95AOAUQs2VtmMjp.97

 

His script was just turned into a movie and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Dead. Well, I'll need another 5th sub then...

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3 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Dead. Well, I'll need another 5th sub then...

Looks like we've reached the point in Summer where the cancer sufferers are all dying. That's 3 in 2 days.

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Poker entrants - to your inboxes! Chaaaaaarggeee!

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