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Groundbreaking Author Gordon Burn Dies Aged 61

Posted at 4:41PM Monday 20 Jul 2009

The writer and novelist Gordon Burn, whose work explored the boundaries between fact and fiction, has died aged 61, his publisher announced today. Burn died on Friday 17 July, having been suffering from cancer.

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