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Shirley Hazzard
Australian-american author.
Born January 30th, 1931 in Sydney. [ref]
Died December 12th, 2016 at 85 years old in Manhattan (dementia). [ref]
Occupations
novelist, writer
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Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi