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Irish writer and playwright dies aged 95

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The award-winning Irish novelist and playwright Jennifer Johnston, known for her novel How Many Miles to Babylon?, has died aged 95.

The celebrated author, who wrote dozens of novels and plays, was born in Dublin in 1930 and lived for a time during the 1970s in Londonderry.

A child of the playwright Denis Johnston and actor and producer Shelah Richards, her first novel, The Captains and the Kings, was published in 1972 and How Many Miles to Babylon? two years later.

In 2012, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards and was one of the writers nominated in 2014 for the position of first Irish Laureate for Fiction.


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