Maeve Binchy, a journalist turned best-selling novels, the large portrait of the women of Ireland to all kinds of adversity, died Monday in Dublin. He was 72.
His death, after a short illness, was announced by the Irish Times, his former employer.
In a statement, Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny said, "all over Ireland and the peoples of the world are celebrating and mourning Maeve Binchy." He added: "It is always a great loss stories of love, hope, generosity, and can be read and loved."
Ms. Binchy of 16 novels, which have been translated into dozens of languages, has sold tens of millions of copies. His best known are the first, "Light a Penny Candle", published in Britain in 1982, "Circle of Friends" (1990), became a 1995 feature film starring Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell and "Tara Road" (1998), a major event of the Book Club, which became a movie starring Andie McDowell and Olivia Williams 2005.
Caring for the weight limit of the door - closer to 600-pages of Ms. Binchy books generally focus on the lives of Irish women in mid-century.
Reviewers praised its strong characterizations; cleareyed portrayal of female friendships and the evocative settings, often with the life of the Irish people in all their social stratification.
Even if your pages have spread among the infidels love, alcoholism, unwanted pregnancy and even murder, Ms. Binchy resisted being described as a romantic writer. First, he stressed, his heroines were less likely to win attractive hero who had to learn to live, very cleverly, no.
"Today, women realize they are dealt a hand of cards to play God," he told the Chicago Tribune in 1999. "There are changes image in my books. The ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan. Become a duck can safely assume their life and their problems."
In addition, his novels were much less water. "There is tremendous interest in sex and write about a very graphic," said Ms. Binchy the London Daily Mail in 2007. "But I will not do it - not because I am a Holy Joe, all that not because I'm very moral, very far from it, but I fear that bad ..."
He added: "Look, I've never been in an orgy and I do not know where would be the legs and arms should be."
Ms. Binchy books once worried about friendship, often following the course of a turbulent relationship idyllic childhood to adulthood. "Light a Penny Candle" follows two childhood friends, one Irish and one in English, in recent decades, through love and marriage failed.
"Circle of Friends" is about the life and loves of three women coming of age in University College, Dublin, alma mater of Ms. Binchy.
In "Tara Road", an Irishman and an American woman, who faced the tragedy, the exchange houses for the summer, the life of every woman to open the other.
If critics believe Ms. Binchy a commercial rather than a literary novelist, then, on their own, not inconvenienced her.
"I am primarily an airport author, and if you are trying to stop thinking about the trip, you will not read 'King Lear'," said the Irish Times in 2000. "I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the floor soon after."
Ms. Binchy joined the staff of the Irish Times in 1968, working as a writer, editor and journalist, has also reported that the role of London before returning to Ireland.
For many years, she and her husband, Gordon Snell, live in a holiday home in Dalkey.
Survivors are her husband, a writer of children's books that were married in 1977, a brother, William, and his sister, Joan.
A posthumous novel, "A week in winter," is scheduled to be released this year.
Despite the wealth and fame of his books presented, Ms. Binchy was largely modest about his work. Until almost the end of his career with The Irish Times (retired it in 2000) has written profiles of authors renowned for their pages.
What caused to stop, said Ms. Binchy The Gazette of Montreal in 1998, was an interview he did with writer Mary Higgins Clark suspense.
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