Biographies: Arthur C. Clarke - Writer

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British writer, born on December 16, 1917 in Britain. His greatest source of fame is the science fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he wrote in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick for a film with the same name. When he was young, he was interested in space, and his fondness for space stories began when he began reading “Amazing Stories” magazine. He served as a first lieutenant in the British Air Force. He predicted in a research that at the end of World War II the communications would be via satellite, but the study was almost rejected when he offered to publish it in a magazine, they said it was too dreamy. He went to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, to settle there. Clarke expected to discover the existence of living beings on other planets by 2030. He wrote around a hundred books on space, including science fiction novels. Clarke was also interested in diving, around which he wrote ten books, and established a school in Colombo. He died on March 19, 2008, at the age of 90, in a hospital in Sri Lanka, due to breathing problems, which are symptoms of polio that he contracted as a child, and made him for the past three decades a prisoner of a wheelchair.

• 26 May 2022
• farah ashraf