British novelist Paul Torday, who had a surprise best-seller with his debut novel "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," has died at age 67, his publisher said Thursday.
Torday died at home in Northumberland a day earlier, surrounded by his family, said publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson. It did not provide a cause of death.
Torday launched his writing career in his late fifties, publishing "Salmon Fishing on the Yemen" in 2007 — the story of a rich sheik who dreams of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to his desert country.
What Paul Torday Dies never publicly disclosed was that this extraordinary output reflected a personal race against time. Having wanted to write all his life, he was faced with a cancer diagnosis shortly after his first book was swept away on the whirlwind of an international award-winning literary sensation and he recognised the extent to which his time might be limited.
The novel was adapted into a 2011 film starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, with Blunt as the sheik's representative and McGregor as a cynical fisheries expert who begrudgingly accepts the challenge.
After getting a degree in English literature, Torday spent years in the engineering business before turning to writing. Following on the success of his first novel, Torday went on to write six more novels and two eBooks.
The novel was adapted into a 2011 film starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.
He is survived by his wife Penelope, his ex-wife Jane, sons Piers and Nicholas and stepsons Jonathan and Charles.
Torday died at home in Northumberland a day earlier, surrounded by his family, said publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson. It did not provide a cause of death.
Torday launched his writing career in his late fifties, publishing "Salmon Fishing on the Yemen" in 2007 — the story of a rich sheik who dreams of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to his desert country.
What Paul Torday Dies never publicly disclosed was that this extraordinary output reflected a personal race against time. Having wanted to write all his life, he was faced with a cancer diagnosis shortly after his first book was swept away on the whirlwind of an international award-winning literary sensation and he recognised the extent to which his time might be limited.
The novel was adapted into a 2011 film starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, with Blunt as the sheik's representative and McGregor as a cynical fisheries expert who begrudgingly accepts the challenge.
After getting a degree in English literature, Torday spent years in the engineering business before turning to writing. Following on the success of his first novel, Torday went on to write six more novels and two eBooks.
The novel was adapted into a 2011 film starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.
He is survived by his wife Penelope, his ex-wife Jane, sons Piers and Nicholas and stepsons Jonathan and Charles.
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