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| Naturalist author Peter Matthiessen dies at 86 Posted: 05 Apr 2014 09:32 PM PDT He was 86. "Peter passed away this evening. We are honored to have known him and his beautiful and wild mind," his publisher Riverhead Books said in a statement. Matthiessen, who reportedly had been treated for leukemia in the past year, had been awaiting publication of his final novel, "In Paradise," April 8, Riverhead confirmed. Matthiessen was among the founders of the prestigious literary magazine The Paris Review. In 1961, Matthiessen, a wilderness trekker and liberal environmentalist, raised his profile as a novelist with "At Play in the Fields of the Lord." The story of missionaries in the crosshairs of indigenous people and mercenaries in Brazil's Amazon jungle was made into a Hollywood film starring John Lithgow and Daryl Hannah. He also earned National Book Awards for "The Snow Leopard," about a spiritual trip to the Himalayas, and for "Shadow Country." Though he grew up a child of privilege, his life took dramatic turns as his personal adventures took him from Asia to Australia to New Guinea and South America; he was even a CIA spy in Paris in the 1950s. While he wrote more than 30 books, the peripatetic Matthiessen – arguably better known for his non-fiction – called fiction his greater calling. Yet they were complementary talents, among many. Indeed, he was the only writer honored with the National Book Award in both fiction and non-fiction. – AFP, April 6, 2014. |
| Garcia Marquez to leave hospital soon Posted: 05 Apr 2014 06:38 PM PDT The 87-year-old Colombian, who has lived in Mexico for more than three decades, was admitted as a precaution on Monday suffering from dehydration and a lung infection. "He is doing well now and he is eager to get home," his son Gonzalo Garcia Barcha told reporters outside the National Medical Sciences and Nutrition Institute. While an assistant earlier said the 1982 Nobel laureate might be able to go home as soon as yesterday, Garcia Barcha said it looked likely his father would be released on Tuesday. Garcia Marquez, widely credited with putting magical realism on the map, is seen as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has sold millions of copies and been translated into 35 languages. – AFP, April 6, 2014. |
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