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Fri 02 Feb 2009Irish author Christopher Nolan dies
The death has been announced of award-winning Irish author Christopher Nolan (43).
Nolan, who suffered from cerebral palsy due to being deprived of oxygen during his birth, used a pointer attached to his head to write three books, one of which won the Whitbread Prize in 1988.
A statement issued on behalf of the Nolan family said he ingested some food into his airways yesterday and died in Beaumont hospital in Dublin at 2.30am today.
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