Iain Banks given: the Scottish author dead at 59

By Belinda Goldsmith

London, June 9 (Reuters) - the novelist Iain Banks, which had lively Scottish literature for three decades with his black humor, has died in just a few days of cancer before the publication of his novel 27 and end "The quarry".

Banks announced that he was suffering from the disease in April and said that he had asked his partner, author Adele Hartley, "she makes me the honour of becoming my widow" - macabre humor, explained, helped to cope with their impending death.

The announcement triggered tributes of his army of fans who have followed the prolific writer since he made his literary debut in 1984 with "The WaSP factory".

Announcing his death at the age of 59, Publisher Little Brown told banks it was irreplaceable part of the literary world.

"It makes just three weeks was presented with finished copies of his latest novel,"The quarry"and enjoy celebration parties with old friends and fans in the publishing world," said the editorial in a statement.

Banks began to write the book when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer in March.

The novel, to be published on June 20, describes the last few weeks in the life of a man in his forties, battling terminal cancer which cares for his son's 18-year-old Kit.

Instinct of the first such banks to fierce black and biting humor comments dialogue remained as sharp as ever.

POLITICS AND PASSIONS

Banks was born in Fife, only child in a home filled with books. Parents encouraged to develop a life of fantasy.

He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer, completing his first unpublished novel at the age of 16.

After the success of 'The WaSP factory', the banks began to write full-time full and in accordance with your editor to try to produce a year's book, making two runs of writing - and Iain Banks current fiction writer Iain M. Banks, the science fiction writer that emerged with "Consider Phlébas" in 1987.

The first Iain made more money from his books, which included "The Crow road" and "Complicity" and received the greatest literary praise. The second Iain with a M., was more political and loyal cult track.

Banks, a character more than life carrying its politics and passions on her sleeve, once joked that he had considered adding a few pseudonyms to the list by writing Westerns as Iain Z. Banks and eroticism as Iain Banks X...

Proud of his Scottish heritage, banks delighted in his love of whisky de Malta, even in what is the subject of a book "Raw spirit" that took him through Scotland.

But after hitting 50 and with the collapse of his first marriage in 2006 he took stock of his life and changes.

The man who once ran by the rector of the University of Edinburgh in the name of hijos de puta drunk party cut their consumption and also abandoned recreational drugs after years of use of marijuana, LSD and cocaine.

"Always called the line in heroin, which is simply stupid," banks told the Australian in 2008.

In an attempt to reduce their carbon footprint, decided to avoid long-haul flights and traded in his beloved sports cars - Jaguar, Porches, BMW and a Land Rover - something greener.

"I miss the car lot. I finally cracked and bought a soft hood Mini because it is green and has the smallest engine, ", he said.

For several years that had problems to travel because he broke his passport in protest of Iraq war in 2007, refuse to apply for a new one until Prime Minister Tony Blair left office.

Fans of the author wrote his condolences on Sunday.

"Rest in peace, Iain Banks. So sad news, "writing cyclist Chris today, most successful Olympic of Great Britain. (Additional reporting by Andrew Osborn; Edited by Andrew Heavens)