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I doubt Sendak wil die any time soon.Last time I saw him on tv a few months ago he seemed in pretty good nick

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I doubt Sendak wil die any time soon.Last time I saw him on tv a few months ago he seemed in pretty good nick

 

Oh great. Another fuck-knuckle.

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Its time for another list of people who still breathe:

 

Booker Prize Winners 1971-2001

 

Author (Year of Birth)

 

V S Naipaul (1932)

John Berger (1926)

Nadine Gordimer (1923)

Ruth Prawer Jhabval (1927)

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)

Barry Unsworth (1930)

Roddy Doyle (1958)

James Kelman (1946)

Pat Barker (1943)

Graham Swift (1949)

Arundhati Roy (1961)

Ian McEwan (1948)

Margaret Atwood (1939)

 

I have omitted the deceased winners such as Kingsley Amis & William Golding

 

 

I don't have any specific health information but apart from those that are well into their eighties I would perhaps begin thinking about James Kelman if only because of the obvious gift if he does go (How late he was, how late).

 

All of them will be obit worthy (especially on Radio 4)

 

Don't be fooled I have never read a Booker Prize winning novel -_-

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Don't be fooled I have never read a Booker Prize winning novel -_-

 

I did! Three even, and in English: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Ian McEwan's Amsterdam and Yann Martel's Life of Pi. The last two I remember as a good read.

 

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A whole 4 of them less than 60 years old, I think that says more about the age of the selection panel than the quality of the writing.

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Syd

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Don't be fooled I have never read a Booker Prize winning novel -_-

 

I did! Three even, and in English: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Ian McEwan's Amsterdam and Yann Martel's Life of Pi. The last two I remember as a good read.

 

regards,

Hein

 

To be fair my wife has read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell and says it is a cracking read so I will probably get round to that soon.

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Peter Ackroyd (b. 1949) was on Desert Island Discs on Sunday (repeated on Friday at 9am) in which he revealed that after completing his book London:A Biography he suffered a massive heart attack and his mother was told he had a 50:50 chance of survival. He also revealed that he smuggled a bottle of wine into his hospital room whilst recovering and didn't beleive in giving things up.

 

This is now several years behind him but he should be on the radar.

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Its time for another list of people who still breathe:

 

Booker Prize Winners 1971-2001

 

Author (Year of Birth)

 

V S Naipaul (1932)

John Berger (1926)

Nadine Gordimer (1923)

Ruth Prawer Jhabval (1927)

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)

Barry Unsworth (1930)

Roddy Doyle (1958)

James Kelman (1946)

Pat Barker (1943)

Graham Swift (1949)

Arundhati Roy (1961)

Ian McEwan (1948)

Margaret Atwood (1939)

 

I have omitted the deceased winners such as Kingsley Amis & William Golding

 

 

I don't have any specific health information but apart from those that are well into their eighties I would perhaps begin thinking about James Kelman if only because of the obvious gift if he does go (How late he was, how late).

 

All of them will be obit worthy (especially on Radio 4)

 

Don't be fooled I have never read a Booker Prize winning novel -_-

 

Lucky I got this list in as Barry Unsworth is dead

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Sad about Unsworth. He did some time as a writer in residence in the Lake District at the end of the seventies and was (briefly) mates with my dad. I met him a few times. Nice bloke and deserved the success it took him years to earn.

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Controversial author Gitta Sereny; made it to 91. Doubtless there will be some revival of the whole Mary Bell controversy and - possibly - someone rooting through Gitta's stuff to find that tell-tale entry in the Filofax; M Bell 91 Cross St...you get the general idea!

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitta_Sereny

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Mid-afternoon office conversation about the once ubiquitous literary figure of Timothy Lea got me trawling the Wikipedia. Found this about Christopher Wood, what a man!! Those books were written by a Cambridge graduate. Given his tonnage of high-profile work he has to be obit worthy.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wood_(writer)

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Donald J. Sobol, author of the Encyclopedia Brown and the more mature Two-Minute Mysteries series, has died aged 87.

 

Not sure how popular they were in the UK, but I always loved his books when I was a kid, even if the solutions to the mysteries were usually complete bullshit.

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Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has died after doing something he clearly was not very effective at: riding a bike.

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicol's (b.1937) Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicols Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

 

Alternatively you could put Sarah Ferguson and Prince Charles on your team of Children's authors

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicols Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

 

Alternatively you could put Sarah Ferguson and Prince Charles on your team of Children's authors

 

Neither is particularly old, or in poor health as far as I'm aware

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicols Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

 

Alternatively you could put Sarah Ferguson and Prince Charles on your team of Children's authors

 

Neither is particularly old, or in poor health as far as I'm aware

 

Oh you are playing to win. I was just trying to be controversial. Think of all those diseases that you might contract from sucking dirty toes! :D

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicol's (b.1937) Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

 

I'm sure I could find hundreds of elderly children's book authors, but if I were to make a theme team for them I would want it to be a list of authors I have heard of before, of series I read when I was younger.

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicol's (b.1937) Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

 

I'm sure I could find hundreds of elderly children's book authors, but if I were to make a theme team for them I would want it to be a list of authors I have heard of before, of series I read when I was younger.

 

Michael Bond (b. 1926), creator of Paddington Bear. Thats a start :)

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicol's (b.1937) Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

 

I'm sure I could find hundreds of elderly children's book authors, but if I were to make a theme team for them I would want it to be a list of authors I have heard of before, of series I read when I was younger.

 

Michael Bond (b. 1926), creator of Paddington Bear. Thats a start :)

 

Bond, Beverly Cleary, Richard Adams, and Eric Carle were all ideas I wrote down. I could stretch the definition a bit to include Sir Terry Pratchett and Harper Lee.

 

It's a moot point though, I have other theme teams put together that were much easier to make and more entertaining.

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A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

 

Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

 

 

Scratch that, she's dead.

 

And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too.

 

I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again

 

Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicol's (b.1937) Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

 

I'm sure I could find hundreds of elderly children's book authors, but if I were to make a theme team for them I would want it to be a list of authors I have heard of before, of series I read when I was younger.

 

Michael Bond (b. 1926), creator of Paddington Bear. Thats a start :)

 

Bond, Beverly Cleary, Richard Adams, and Eric Carle were all ideas I wrote down. I could stretch the definition a bit to include Sir Terry Pratchett and Harper Lee.

 

It's a moot point though, I have other theme teams put together that were much easier to make and more entertaining.

 

I have an Authors theme team drafted out but Ray Bradbury put a hole in its bows but it is still afloat.

 

I kept some names back!!

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