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Donald G. Payne, who, under the pseudonym James Vance Marshall, wrote the novel Walkabout, is now 92 and hasn't been mentioned before on DL, so I just thought I'd throw his name into the mix. The book was later turned into the film starring Jenny Agutter.

Everyone knows about the film! ;)

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Margaret Forster, dies aged 77.

 

Best known work would be Georgy Girl, which was filmed starring Lynn Redgrave. Also, the wife of Hunter Davies.

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Gillian Avery has died at 89. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/community/obituaries/obits/14267474.Obituary__Award_winning_author_Gillian_Avery_loved_gardening_on_her_allotments/?ref=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

In 1972, she won The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her novel A Likely Lad, which was then adapted for television in 1990.

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Italian media are reporting that Umberto Eco has passed away at 84. No presentation needed, another big loss today...

 

http://www.euronews.com/2016/02/20/italian-author-and-intellectual-umberto-eco-has-died-at-the-age-of-84/

 

Wow! Two authors in 24 hours? You couldn't write this sort of stuff...

 

BBC Obit for the DDP: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35620368

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This is getting ridiculous.

 

Just a list of the major and moderate-importance deaths so far this year (some more important for Americans than Brits, and others more important for Brits than Americans, so don't complain!)

 

January 4: Robert Stigwood

January 5: Pierre Boulez

January 6: Pat Harrington, Jr.

January 10: David Bowie

January 14: Alan Rickman, Rene Angelil

January 15: Dan Haggerty

January 18: Glenn Frey

January 22: Cecil Parkinson

January 26: Abe Vigoda

January 28: Paul Kantner, Signe Toly Anderson

January 29: Jacques Rivette

January 30: Frank Finlay

January 31: Terry Wogan

February 4: Maurice White

February 13: Antonin Scalia

February 15: George Gaynes

February 16: Boutros Boutros-Ghali

February 19: Harper Lee, Umberto Eco

 

Let me know if I forgot anyone.

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Pierre Boulez, Alan Rickman, Frank Finlay and, I suppose, Cecil Parkinson (despite his outright git nature) would add to your list too, certainly.

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Pierre Boulez, Alan Rickman, Frank Finlay and, I suppose, Cecil Parkinson (despite his outright git nature) would add to your list too, certainly.

Oh my god, how could I forgot Rickman! *insert facepalm emoticon that I can't figure out how to insert from my phone*

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Pierre Boulez, Alan Rickman, Frank Finlay and, I suppose, Cecil Parkinson (despite his outright git nature) would add to your list too, certainly.

Oh my god, how could I forgot Rickman! *insert facepalm emoticon that I can't figure out how to insert from my phone*

 

Where's there a 14 year old kid when you need one to show how it's done. :lol:

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Italian media are reporting that Umberto Eco has passed away at 84. No presentation needed, another big loss today...

 

http://www.euronews.com/2016/02/20/italian-author-and-intellectual-umberto-eco-has-died-at-the-age-of-84/

Shit, shit, shit. I read several of Eco's books in translation. Not all of them are good reads, but all of them interesting in a QI sort of way.

 

Here´s a pirate copy of his book How to travel with a salmon & other essays.

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This is getting ridiculous.

 

Just a list of the major and moderate-importance deaths so far this year (some more important for Americans than Brits, and others more important for Brits than Americans, so don't complain!)

 

January 4: Robert Stigwood

January 5: Pierre Boulez

January 6: Pat Harrington, Jr.

January 10: David Bowie

January 14: Alan Rickman, Rene Angelil

January 15: Dan Haggerty

January 18: Glenn Frey

January 22: Cecil Parkinson

January 26: Abe Vigoda

January 28: Paul Kantner, Signe Toly Anderson

January 30: Frank Finlay

January 31: Terry Wogan

February 4: Maurice White

February 13: Antonin Scalia

February 15: George Gaynes

February 16: Boutros Boutros-Ghali

February 19: Harper Lee, Umberto Eco

 

Let me know if I forgot anyone.

 

Jaques Rivette. I know some people on here are claiming not to have heard of him but he was a big name and I'd say has more right to be there than Pat Harringon or George Gaynes.

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I listen to my music on shuffle usually.

Since yesterday I swear Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" has been in the first 3 songs that played each and every time.

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I listen to my music on shuffle usually.

Since yesterday I swear Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" has been in the first 3 songs that played each and every time.

And?......

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Author Louise Rennison, (Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging), dies aged 63.

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Pancreatic cancer... still a bitch... (Louise Plowright had it as well...)

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Can't find anything so may be one of those hoaxes, but rumour that Anita Brookner may have died?

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If Joanna Harris is tweeting it, you'd have thought that's close to an official announcement.

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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)

Anita Brookner (1928)

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)

 

Updated for Brookner

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