[fictionmags] Ballard Confirmation from BBC

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I knew it was coming, but -- what a loss.


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    <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm>

    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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