Abgeschickt von Martine am 13 Januar, 2008 um 18:46:27:
Hi Dunneties,
es gibt hier wohl auch Fans, die ihn vermissen werden:
Mir hat besonders *The Pyrates* unglaublichen Spaß gemacht.
Aber auch sein Buch über die Border Reivers möchte ich nicht missen!
George MacDonald Fraser ist gestorben. Ich habe es leider erst heute mitbekommen und zitiere aus dem Nachruf in der NY Times:
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January 3, 2008
George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82
By MARGALIT FOX
George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died yesterday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years.
The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent.
Over nearly four decades, Mr. Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume “memoir,” known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle and in bed. In the process, Mr. Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire.
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Mr. Fraser’s survivors include his wife, Kathy; two sons and a daughter. Information on other survivors could not immediately be confirmed.
His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them “Mr. American” (Simon & Schuster, 1980); “The Pyrates” (Knopf, 1984); and “Black Ajax” (HarperCollins, 1997). With Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, Mr. Fraser wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “Octopussy,” released in 1983.
Mr. Fraser’s latest book, “The Reavers,” a non-Flashman novel, is scheduled to be published by Knopf in April.
For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. This award, according to every conceivable news account, was entirely genuine.
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Gruß Martine