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US novelist Updike dies of cancer

US novelist John Updike has died from cancer at the age of 76.

He won the Pulitzer prize twice, publishing more than 50 books in a career spanning 50 years.

Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books, paid tribute to ''an evocative and elegant writer.''

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