The reference news network reported on November 15 that according to agency Agence France-Presse Johannesburg reported on November 13 that South African novelist Wilbur Smith died in Cape Town on the 13th at the age of 88.
A communiqué published on the Wilbur Smith Books website reads: "Global bestseller Wilbur Smith suddenly passed away at home this afternoon, reading and writing in the morning in the company of his wife. ”
Smith wrote 49 novels in his lifetime, which have been translated into more than 30 languages around the world. His novels sold a total of 140 million copies.
Born on January 9, 1933, Smith rose to fame with his first novel, When a Lion Eats, published in 1964.
His most successful book is the 13-book Series of Legends of the Courtney Family, which tells the story of an African family over three centuries from being colonized by Europeans to apartheid in South Africa.
Source: Reference News Network
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