JG Ballard dies at 78

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JG Ballard dies at 78

Apr 20 2009

JG Ballard, author of scores of short stories and fifteen novels including Empire of the Sun (based on his childhood in a Japanese prison camp in China), has died aged 78 after a long illness.

Source: BBC News

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