Press Release from Penguin Random House
It is with
immeasurable sadness that we announce that author Sir Terry Pratchett has died
at the age of 66.
Larry Finlay, MD at Transworld Publishers:
"I was deeply saddened to learn that Sir
Terry Pratchett has died. The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest
minds.
In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet
like few before him. As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize
this world: he did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous
humour and constant invention.
Terry faced his Alzheimer's disease (an
'embuggerance', as he called it) publicly and bravely. Over the last few years,
it was his writing that sustained him. His legacy will endure for decades to
come.
My sympathies go out to Terry's wife Lyn,
their daughter Rhianna, to his close friend Rob Wilkins, and to all closest to
him."
Terry passed away in his home, with his cat
sleeping on his bed surrounded by his family on 12th March 2015.
Diagnosed with PCA[1] in 2007,
he battled the progressive disease with his trademark determination and
creativity, and continued to write. He completed his last book, a new Discworld
novel, in the summer of 2014, before succumbing to the final stages of the
disease.
We ask that the family are left undisturbed at
this distressing time.
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