Book News: Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93
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The Irish writer Edna OâBrien, who explored the complications and contradictions of womenâs lives in a literary career lasting more than half a century, has died aged 93 after a long illness,... Read more »
Evan Wright, the award-winning journalist who wrote about US subcultures in the book Generation Kill, which he helped adapt into the HBO miniseries of the same name, has died aged 59. Wright... Read more »
Donald Sutherland, whose acting career spanned six decades and included starring in such highly acclaimed films as Donât Look Now, M*A*S*H and The Hunger Games, has died aged 88. He died in... Read more »
John Burnside, author of Black Cat Bone and The Asylum Dance, has died aged 69 after a short illness. He died on 29 May, his publisher has confirmed. Though mainly known for... Read more »
Shirley Conran, the author of Lace and Superwoman, has died aged 91, her son the designer Jasper Conran has announced. The bestselling âqueen of the bonkbusterâ was also the founder of the... Read more »
CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer that affects bone marrow, in 2012. His... Read more »
The author Lynne Reid Banks has died at the age of 94. Known for books such as the children’s story The Indian in the Cupboard, she died of cancer “peacefully with her... Read more »
Maryse Condé, the Guadeloupean author of more than 20 novels, activist, academic and sole winner of the New Academy prize in literature, has died aged 90. Condé, whose books include Segu and... Read more »