The American writer died on March 25, at the age of 84.
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“Larry McMurtry passed away last night, March 25, from cardiac arrest”, the writer’s agent told the AFP, Friday March 26. The author, nicknamed in particular the “Flaubert of the Great Plains”, will be buried in Texas (United States), where he was born. He was 84 years old.
Novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry is known for his literary series Lonesome Dove, whose volume 1 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1986. He then engages in screenwriting and signs with Diana Ossana that of Secret de Brokeback Mountain. Annie Proulx’s short story adaptation, which inspired the film, won her the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2006.
Founder of a bookstore
Besides his taste for writing, Larry McMurtry was also an avid reader and this passion for the book had led him to open an independent bookstore, which had become one of the largest in the United States, at the end of the 1980s. in Texas.
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