Monday, 7 February 2011

RIP Brian Jacques

It has been sadly announced that children's fantasy author Brian Jacques has died of a heart attack at the age of 71.

Jacques is best-known as the author of the Redwall series of animal fantasies. The 22nd novel in the series, The Rogue Crew, is complete and due for publication in May 2011. He also wrote an additional number of other books, including companions to the Redwall series and unrelated books. Overall, his novels had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and been translated into 29 languages.
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7 comments:

  1. ishouldbeking7 February 2011 at 16:49:00 GMT

    Aw, that's a sad bit of news. I have fond memories of reading the first several Redwall books in grade school.

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  2. franti7 February 2011 at 17:07:00 GMT

    aw, no. He's the guy that got me reading fantasy in the first place. I'm shattered.

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  3. Anonymous8 February 2011 at 00:15:00 GMT

    The genre has lost its best 'gateway' author since Tolkien. RIP.

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  4. Anonymous8 February 2011 at 17:54:00 GMT

    That's really sad. I've fond memories of the Redwall books. Probably the first fantasy books i've read.

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  5. Anonymous9 February 2011 at 02:49:00 GMT

    May he get where he is going with ease.

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  6. Keeril9 February 2011 at 03:22:00 GMT

    i loved those books... i'm devastated. i wanted them to go on on and on forever. :(

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  7. Anonymous11 February 2011 at 03:21:00 GMT

    At 24, I'm far out of the target audience, but every year I have waited impatiently for the newest Redwall book. I'm in complete disbelief that this will be the last one I'll have. RIP, Mr. Jacques.

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