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Books Many fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett fans mourn today, one of the most admired and most read with 85 million books sold worldwide. British author died Thursday at the age of 66 years.

British author Terry Pratchett, author of the comic fantasy saga The Discworld Annals , died Thursday at his home at age 66 after a long illness, said his publisher Transworld. “Diagnosed as suffering from APC (posterior cortical atrophy) in 2007, he fought against this degenerative disease with determination and creativity that characterized him and he continued to write,” said the editor. “He finished in the summer of 2014 his latest Book , a new volume of Discworld Annals before succumbing to the last stages of the disease,” Does -he said.

Terry Pratchett has sold a total of nearly 85 million books worldwide. The Discworld Annals is a series of fantasy where the action takes place on a disc-shaped world, supported by four elephants, and endless voyage through the cosmos. To an audience of young adults, Annals are distinguished by their irreverent tone and are full of parodic references to classical culture, mythology but also rock music. “In more than 70 books, Terry has enriched the world like few others before him,” praised the publisher. It has “faced her Alzheimer publicly and courageously. In recent years, it was his writing that life held him,” said Transworld.

Terry Pratchett was appointed second best writer in 2006 British living behind JK Rowling, who imagined the character of Harry Potter, by readers of the Book literary magazine. In recent years, he had committed euthanasia. In 2011, he directed a documentary for the BBC showing the euthanasia death of a UK hotel in Switzerland, which had provoked a lively debate in the UK where euthanasia is illegal. “I am ashamed of the fact that the British have to hang on to Switzerland for a considerable cost, to get the services they want,” he told the BBC, calling himself “outraged by the situation “in his country. Posterior cortical atrophy, also called Benson syndrome is considered a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease. The disease causes atrophy of the posterior part of the cerebral cortex, resulting in a decline in vision and writing ability in particular.

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