He died the famous science fiction writer Terry Pratchett – Russian newspaper

At the age of 66 years died British writer Terry Pratchett. On Thursday March 12 told the BBC referring to his publisher.

The cause of his death is likely to become Alzheimer’s disease, from which he had suffered since 2007. In recent years, Pratchett has repeatedly stated desire to voluntarily withdraw from life. In August 2009, he wrote in the Daily Mail newspaper open letter about euthanasia. June 15, 2011 the press reported that Pratchett began the paperwork for admission to the Swiss organization “Dignitas”, practitioner permissible euthanasia in Switzerland.

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By 2012, Pratchett condition deteriorated rapidly, and in recent years the writer could not read and write, though, and continued to work, dictating works his assistant, Rob Wilkins, or using voice recognition software .

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Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 in Beaconsfield. In 13 years, his story “The Hades Business” was published in the school magazine. “This was the beginning of his literary career. Glory to the writer of the satirical fantasy series brought about Discworld. The total circulation of his books is about 50 million copies.

Pratchett worked together with other well-known writers, including Neil Gaiman (“The Unadulterated Cat”), has written several movies based on his books. In February 2009, Pratchett was devoted to English Queen Elizabeth II was made Knight Bachelor, being at the same time an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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