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Novelist J.G. Ballard died Sunday, April 19. He was 78. The Guardian newspaper said that Ballard "has been a giant on the world literary scene for more than 50 years. Following his early novels of the 60s and 70s, his work then reached a wider audience with the publication of Empire of the Sun (Find this book in our catalog) in 1984 which won several prizes and was made in to a film by Steven Spielberg. His acute and visionary observation of contemporary life was distilled into a number of brilliant, powerful novels which have been published all over the world and saw Ballard gain cult status."

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