Madeleine LâEngle, Childrenâs Writer, Is Dead
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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NEWS of the death of world intellectual and philosopher, Algerian born French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, has thrown the literary community and world leaders into mourning.
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Julien Gracq, a celebrated French writer known for surrealism and solitude and for having turned down France's top literary prize, has died, hospital officials said Sunday. He was 97.
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Mozart, the troubled daughter of Flower, the late matriarch of the Whiskers clan on the popular Animal Planet series âMeerkat Manor,â died at the end of Fridayâs episode; it was the second death to shake fans of the showâs loveable but hard-luck stars in a month.
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French novelist Francoise Sagan, known for her haunting novel, Bonjour Tristesse, died Friday at the age of 69. The Agence France-Presse news agency reported Ms.
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Travel writer and broadcaster Pete McCarthy has died at the age of 51. McCarthy, author of the best-selling book McCarthy's Bar, died at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton.
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Chronology of key events in the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann.
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.
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Writer Henri Troyat, who fled Russia's revolution as a child and went on to become one of France's most prolific, popular and respected authors, has died, the Academie Francaise said Monday. He was 95.
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Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.
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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet,  an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who  helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday  aged 85, his publishers said.
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Marianne Fredriksson, one of Sweden's best known and most translated authors, has died at the age of 79, Swedish media quoted her agent as saying on Sunday.
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American intellectual and author Susan Sontag has died in New York at the age of 71. Her son, David Rieff, said the cause was complications stemming from acute myelogenous leukaemia, one of the deadliest forms of leukaemia.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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Until now, Claire Messud has been a critically praised writer who does not sell many books, but she seems poised for success with her fourth novel, ÂThe EmperorÂs Children.Â
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"The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died" (Harper Paperbacks, 281 pages. $14.95), by Michael Largo: It's hard to imagine overselling the importance of death to a person's life, but listen to author Michael Largo.
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the  only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,  died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.