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Terry Pratchett

1948 - 2015

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Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Terry Pratchett is the 209th most popular writer (down from 159th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 109th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Writer.

Terry Pratchett is most famous for his Discworld series of novels. The Discworld is a flat world that is carried on the backs of four elephants that stand on the back of a giant turtle.

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Among writers, Terry Pratchett ranks 209 out of 7,302. Before him are Aldous Huxley, Imre Kertész, Luís de Camões, David Woodard, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and Svetlana Alexievich. After him are Terence, Frédéric Mistral, Karel Čapek, Carlo Goldoni, Pearl S. Buck, and George Sand.

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Among people born in 1948, Terry Pratchett ranks 9. Before him are George R. R. Martin, Jean Reno, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Michel Jarre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Svetlana Alexievich. After him are Cat Stevens, Samuel L. Jackson, Ozzy Osbourne, Eckhart Tolle, John R. Bolton, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Among people deceased in 2015, Terry Pratchett ranks 13. Before him are Lemmy, Christopher Lee, Tomas Tranströmer, Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Demis Roussos. After him are Omar Sharif, Kim Young-sam, Helmut Schmidt, Süleyman Demirel, Anita Ekberg, and Henning Mankell.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Terry Pratchett ranks 186 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Boleyn (1499), Henry Purcell (1659), Betty Williams (1943), Elton John (1947), Robert Clive (1725), and Bon Scott (1946). After him are Alan Hodgkin (1914), Alexander R. Todd (1907), George Harrison (1943), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), William of Ockham (1285), and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Terry Pratchett ranks 23. Before him are Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), and Aldous Huxley (1894). After him are William Blake (1757), W. H. Auden (1907), C. S. Lewis (1898), J. K. Rowling (1965), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), and Arthur C. Clarke (1917).

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