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Flashman series creator Fraser dies

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From: Winnipeg Free Press
Date: 20080103
Author:Anonymous

LONDON -- Author George MacDonald Fraser, the creator of the much-loved Flashman series, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82.

Fraser died following a battle with cancer, said Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Knopf, which will release Fraser's latest work The Reavers in the United States in April.

Born in Carlisle, northern England in 1925, Fraser served with the British Army in India and Burma during the Second World War, and in the Middle East after the war. He worked as a journalist in Britain and Canada for more than 20 years before turning to fiction.

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