10 June 2013
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Leading authors pay tribute to Iain Banks
Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh are amongst those who have remembered the much-loved Scottish writer who died yesterday, aged 59 ...
Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh are amongst those who have remembered the much-loved Scottish writer who died yesterday, aged 59
Iain Banks announced at the beginning of May that he had cancer of he gall bladder, and less than a year to live. His new book, The Quarry, which will be published next Thursday (20 June), describes the last weeks of a man with terminal cancer.
'An astounding talent and a great soul,' tweeted Stephen Fry. 'I'm off to the pub to toast one of my all-time literary heroes with a malt,' said Irvine Welsh.
An emotional Neil Gaiman tweeted that he was 'crying in an empty house. A good man and a friend for almost 30 years.' Ian Rankin told the BBC that Banks was 'fascinating, curious and full of life.'
Iain Banks' first novel, The Wasp Factory, was published in 1984. He wrote science fiction under the name Iain M. Banks.
Iain Banks announced at the beginning of May that he had cancer of he gall bladder, and less than a year to live. His new book, The Quarry, which will be published next Thursday (20 June), describes the last weeks of a man with terminal cancer.
'An astounding talent and a great soul,' tweeted Stephen Fry. 'I'm off to the pub to toast one of my all-time literary heroes with a malt,' said Irvine Welsh.
An emotional Neil Gaiman tweeted that he was 'crying in an empty house. A good man and a friend for almost 30 years.' Ian Rankin told the BBC that Banks was 'fascinating, curious and full of life.'
Iain Banks' first novel, The Wasp Factory, was published in 1984. He wrote science fiction under the name Iain M. Banks.
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