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‘A towering legacy’: British novelist Martin Amis dies of cancer at 73

The agent of Martin Amis says the novelist has died at the age of 73 from cancer of the oesophagus. Photo: AAP

Martin Amis, one of the leading lights of the Seventies literary movement that transformed the modern English novel, has died at the age of 73.

His death on Friday at his home in Florida comes as a harrowing film adaption of his novel 2014l The Zone of Interest premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was welcomed with rave reviews.

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