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Author Graham Joyce died on September 9 after a battle with lymphoma. He was 59. A fantasy writer primarily, his works often contained elements of magic realism leading to comparisons with authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

He was born into a family of coal miners just outside Coventry, England. In his working class community people who used two-syllable words were considered suspicious, he said. He received a B.Ed in 1977 from Bishop Lonsdale College, an MA from the University of Leicester in 1980. He taught creative writing at Nottingham Trent University between 1996 and his death.

Graham Joyce wrote fourteen novels and twenty-six stories. His writing received numerous awards including a World Fantasy Award, multiple British Fantasy Awards, and an O. Henry Prize. His young adult books TWOC and The Exchange were both finalists for Carnegie Medals.

Some of Graham Joyce's books:

Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit (alternate title: The Year of the Ladybird)
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The Limits of Enchantment

The Silent Land

Some Kind of Fairy Tale
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