{"id":180918,"date":"2025-12-12T22:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180918\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:47:15","slug":"british-aga-saga-author-joanna-trollope-dies-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180918\/","title":{"rendered":"British \u2018Aga saga\u2019 author Joanna Trollope dies aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Her most recent work Mum &amp; Dad, published in 2020, chronicled three siblings and their families who gather after their father suffers a stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Trollope died peacefully at her home in central Oxfordshire, her daughters Antonia and Louise said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Joanna Trollope, one of our most cherished, acclaimed and widely enjoyed novelists,\u201d her literary agent James Gill said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Jeremy Trevathan, Trollope\u2019s publisher at Pan Macmillan, paid tribute to a \u201cwitty, wise and empathetic\u201d author who was also \u201cjust lots of fun to be with\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe leaves us all a wonderful legacy of compelling, insightful social commentary, portraying family dynamics with warmth, intelligence, and a keen eye for human foibles,\u201d he was quoted as saying by The Bookseller magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Trollope was honoured in 2019 by the late Queen Elizabeth II, who made her a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her most recent work Mum &amp; Dad, published in 2020, chronicled three siblings and their families who gather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115028,115026,18919,13851,29805,14801,6179,7126,1634,156,2109,305,15896,111,139,69,32325,3175,19996,115030,3048,115029,115027],"class_list":["post-180918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-115028","tag-aga","tag-aged","tag-author","tag-bestselling","tag-british","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-have","tag-joanna","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-renowned","tag-rural","tag-saga","tag-sagas","tag-said","tag-socalled","tag-trollope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}