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Ella Creamer

Jennifer Johnston, celebrated Irish novelist and playwright, dies aged 95

Jennifer Johnston at the international festival of literature in Rome in 2010.
Jennifer Johnston at the international festival of literature in Rome in 2010. Photograph: Mirco Toniolo/Shutterstock

Jennifer Johnston, the Booker-shortlisted novelist and playwright who explored family, loss and memory against the backdrop of a changing Ireland, has died aged 95.

Lauded as “the best writer in Ireland” by novelist Roddy Doyle, Johnston published regularly across the four-decade span of her career, which began when she was in her 40s.

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