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Critic, essayist, poet and broadcaster
Australia · 1939–2019
Australian critic, memoirist, poet and broadcaster who spent most of his working life in Britain, where he was the Observer's television critic and the author of Unreliable Memoirs and Cultural Amnesia. Diagnosed with leukaemia and emphysema in 2010, he wrote and gave interviews about his own dying for the next nine years, including the late poetry of Sentenced to Life, before dying in Cambridge in November 2019.
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What I’ve got doesn’t hurt. I’ve been lucky. The treatment has been benign. I don’t know if I could concentrate if I was in pain. I’ve never had to stop.
Recorded Robert McCrum, Interview at James's home in Cambridge, published in the Observer New Review, The Observer, 15 March 2015 source ↗
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