Ballard dies of advanced prostate cancer

Shanghai-born writer J. G. Ballard, who started out as a writer of such avant garde science fiction as The Drowned World and The Crystal World but went on to produce the widely read novels Empire of the Sun and Crash, has died of prostate cancer. He was diagnosed with advanced disease in 2006.

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  1. The Australian multi-billionaire Richard Pratt is reported to be ill with prostate cancer, according to the Parliamentary Secretary and his long-term friend Bill Shorten.

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