Fwd: [fictionmags] Ballard Confirmation from BBC

[Paul Di Filippo]

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> From: "Mike Blake" <MikeBlake at softhome.net>
> Date: April 19, 2009 2:50:27 PM EDT
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> Subject: [fictionmags] Ballard Confirmation from BBC
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> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm>
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> BBC NEWS
> "Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78"
>
> The author JG Ballard, famed for novels such as Crash and Empire of  
> the Sun, has died aged 78 after a long illness.
>
> His agent Margaret Hanbury said the author had been ill "for  
> several years" and had died on Sunday morning.
>
> Despite being referred to as a science fiction writer, Ballard said  
> his books were instead "picturing the psychology of the future".
>
> His most acclaimed novel was Empire of the Sun, based on his  
> childhood in a Japanese prison camp in China.
>
> The author of 15 novels and scores of short stories, Ballard grew  
> up amongst the ex-patriot community in Shanghai.
>
> During World War II, at the age of 12, he was interned for three  
> years in a camp run by the Japanese.
>
> He later moved to Britain and in the early 1960s became a full-time  
> writer.
>
> Ballard built up a passionate readership, particularly after Empire  
> of The Sun, a fictionalised account of his childhood was made into  
> a film by Steven Spielberg.
>
> Director David Cronenberg brought Ballard's infamous book about the  
> sexual desires stimulated by car crashes to the screen in the film  
> Crash.
>
> The film caused a media stir, adding to Ballard's reputation for  
> courting controversy.
>
> Published: 2009/04/19 18:43:34 GMT
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