Bryce Courtenay dies at 11.30pm on Thursday at his Canberra home. He was 79. The writer of The Potato Factory, Jessica, and Tommo Hawk did not let his fight with stomach cancer slow him down. His final book, Jack of Diamonds, was released only 11 days ago by Penguin. With sales of more than 20 million books worldwide, Courtenay was Australia#39;s biggest-selling author of the past 20 years. Internationally, his work was translated into 17 languages, including Japanese and Chinese. He publish
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Bryce Courtenay dies at 79
