US EditionJoanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
Joanna Trollope, author of over 30 novels and dubbed 'Queen of the Aga Saga,' died peacefully at 82, leaving a legacy of sharp social insights and literary honors.
- On December 11, Joanna Trollope died peacefully at her Oxfordshire home, her daughters Antonia and Louise said.
- Over her five decades as an author, Joanna Trollope built a long literary career with books translated into more than 25 languages and several television adaptations.
- She wrote earlier under the name Caroline Harvey, publishing ten historical novels before writing The Rector's Wife, Marrying The Mistress and Daughters in Law; her honours included OBE and CBE .
- Tributes from fellow writers and readers poured in, with James Gill, literary agent, expressing 'great sadness' and fans mourning the loss this year.
- Far from accepting the 'Aga saga' label, Trollope called it patronising and tackled themes like infidelity, adoption, parenting, and marital breakdown, while being a distant relative of Anthony Trollope, novelist.
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British writer Joanna Trollope, renowned for her best-selling contemporary romantic novels, died at her home in Oxfordshire, in southern England, at the age of 82.
His novels, including "Les Enfants d'un autres", "Les Femmes de son" or "Une famille", tell about the dynamics and ties that are forming within families of the English middle class.
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Joanna Trollope on ditching 'Aga sagas' for career women and gay relationships
Joanna Trollope, who has died aged 82, was a novelist with an unerring eye for the tensions shaping modern life. Though often – and inaccurately – labelled the "queen of the Aga saga", she bristled at the tag, arguing that it diminished the seriousness of her work.As Fay Weldon once put it, Trollope had “a gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times”, whether she was writing about marriage, family, faith or the shifting expectations …
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