The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board is floating the idea of a daily shuttle service for patients between Nelson and Wairau hospitals. [99], Pratchett received a knighthood for "services to literature" in the 2009 UK New Year Honours list. "I didn't know until that day that we would have to pick him up," she said. Blenheim woman Sharon Webster is not happy with the way hospital staff wash their hands of patients once discharged from Nelson Hospital. All rights reserved. 20 March 2015.

Required fields are marked *. [12] He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust,[13] filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron for Alzheimer's Research UK.

[159] Indeed, the number eight itself is regarded in the Discworld as being a magical number; for example, the eighth son of an eighth son will be a wizard, and his eighth son will be a "sourcerer", extremely powerful users of magic with abilities far beyond what most wizards usually achieve (which is one reason why wizards are not allowed to have children).[160]. [123], Three of the five Discworld novels that centre on the "trainee witch" Tiffany Aching won the annual Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book in 2004, 2005 and 2007. Occupations. Journalist. [18], Pratchett's family moved to Bridgwater, Somerset, briefly in 1957. [34][better source needed] His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff became the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. [74] However, he did not consider the Internet a hobby, just another "thing to use". [14] Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66. "I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the Brompton Cocktail some helpful medic could supply. Her generosity saved Blenheim octogenarian Edna Churchill from being stranded in Nelson in February after she had surgery to install a heart pacemaker. [47] Pratchett tested a prototype device to address his condition. "[108], Pratchett was the British Book Awards' 'Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year' for 1994.

Pratchett married Lyn Purves in 1968 and published his first novel, "The Carpet People," three years later in 1971. Pratchett made up a new colour, octarine, a 'fluorescent greenish-yellow-purple', which is the eighth colour in the Discworld spectrum—the colour of magic. Andrew M. Butler wrote the Pocket Essentials Guide to Terry Pratchett published in 2001 (ISBN 1903047390). [63][64] Pratchett was memorialised in graffiti in East London. Facts about Terry Pratchett .

Pratchett married Lyn Purves in 1968 and published his first novel, "The Carpet People," three years later in 1971. Rhianna is really her father’s daughter, she has contributed in titles such as Tomb Raider, she has been nominated for a BAFTA and in 2008 she was awarded a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain ‘Best Videogame Script’eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'dailyentertainmentnews_com-banner-1','ezslot_2',121,'0','0'])); Lyn’s popular husband was estimated to have sold 85 million books in 37 different languages. Melissa Mathison, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” and Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun,” died on Nov. 4, 2015. You can also subscribe without commenting. He donated over $500,000 to research.

[23], Pratchett's early interests included astronomy.

Pratchett's first two adult novels, The Dark Side of the Sun (1976) and Strata (1981), were both science-fiction, the latter taking place partly on a disc-shaped world.

"[155] However, there were exceptions; Going Postal and Making Money and several of his books for younger readers are divided into chapters. [36][37][38] In December 2007, he announced that he had been newly diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which had been responsible for the "stroke". His sales increased quickly and many of his books occupied top places on the best-seller list; he was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. "[129], He was made an adjunct Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin in 2010, with a role in postgraduate education in creative writing and popular literature. I hope that at the end, it was as you wished, not quite in the garden but surrounded by those closest to you. [111], Pratchett was awarded ten honorary doctorates: University of Warwick in 1999,[112] the University of Portsmouth in 2001,[113] the University of Bath in 2003,[114] the University of Bristol in 2004,[115] Buckinghamshire New University in 2008,[116] the University of Dublin in 2008,[117] Bradford University in 2009,[118] University of Winchester in 2009,[119] The Open University in 2013[120] for his contribution to Public Service and his last, from the University of South Australia, in May 2014. [15], Pratchett was born on 28 April 1948[1][16] in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, England, the only child of David (1921–2006), a mechanic, and Eileen Pratchett (1922–2010), a secretary, of Hay-on-Wye. He also visited his former school to speak to the students.

You lovely man. [99], Pratchett told the Times in 2008: "I believe in the same God that Einstein did ... And it is just possible that once you have got past all the gods that we have created with big beards and many human traits, just beyond all that on the other side of physics, there just may be the ordered structure from which everything flows. Lynn Purves, who runs nearby Slade Stables, where children were saddling up for a morning ride on Monday morning, said her daughter heard him … [32], In a 1995 interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Pratchett expressed concern about the potential spread of misinformation online: "Let’s say I call myself the Institute for Something-or-other and I decide to promote a spurious treatise saying the Jews were entirely responsible for the second world war and the Holocaust didn’t happen, and it goes out there on the Internet and is available on the same terms as any piece of historical research which has undergone peer review and so on. [88] The final name chosen for element 117 was tennessine with the symbol Ts.[89].

Mrs Webster has stayed there and found it excellent. [179] The notes left behind outline ideas about "how the old folk of the Twilight Canyons solve the mystery of a missing treasure and defeat the rise of a Dark Lord despite their failing memories", "the secret of the crystal cave and the carnivorous plants in the Dark Incontinent", about Constable Feeney of the Watch, first introduced in Snuff, involving how he "solves a whodunnit among the congenitally decent and honest goblins", and on a second book about Amazing Maurice from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. [156] Pratchett offered explanations for his sporadic use of chapters; in the young adult titles, he said that he must use chapters because '[his] editor screams until [he] does', but otherwise felt that they were an unnecessary 'stopping point' that got in the way of the narrative. Many of the novels in Pratchett's Discworld series parody real-world subjects such as film making, newspaper publishing, rock and roll music, religion, philosophy, Ancient Greece, Egyptian history, the Gulf War, Australia, university politics, trade unions, and the financial world. Pratchett is survived by his wife and their daughter, Rhianna. I thank you, Terry.

[149], Pratchett is known for a distinctive writing style that included a number of characteristic hallmarks. eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'dailyentertainmentnews_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_1',120,'0','0'])); Meet Lyn Purves the wife of English author Terry Pratchett.

[51] He later said he felt "it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer". His initial career choice was journalism and he left school at 17, in 1965, to start an apprenticeship with Arthur Church, the editor of the Bucks Free Press. "I thought the hospital would bring me home," said Mrs Churchill, who had no clothes with her in Nelson. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter. [97] The Sir Terry Pratchett Memorial Scholarship supports a Masters scholarship at the University's Hawke Research Institute. [128] In 2011 he won Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, a lifetime honour for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature".

Such a wonderful man; his words were and always will be an inspiration - a true joy to his many readers - providing treasured moments which will live with us forever.

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"[99] He said he had never disliked religion and thought it had a purpose in human evolution. Death was a character in almost all of the Discworld books, speaking in all capital letters and expressing a fascination with humans.

Characters and locations reappear throughout the series, variously taking major and minor roles. [99] In his novel Nation, the protagonist says "It is better to build a seismograph than to worship the volcano", a statement Pratchett said he agreed with. [24] He developed an interest in science fiction[25] and attended science fiction conventions from about 1963–1964, but stopped a few years later when he got his first job as a trainee journalist at the local paper. For all the times that you made me laugh (mum looking at me as though I had lost my mind - who laughs at a book?!) Pratchett made no secret of outside influences on his work: they were a major source of his humour. Her husband a renowned fantasy author and creator of the Discworld series, died at age 66.

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