Literary agent Deborah Rogers, whose clients included Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureishi, A.S. Byatt, Anita Desai, Peter Carey and Thomas Keneally, died Wednesday, the Bookseller reported. She was in her 70s. A statement from RCW (Rogers, Coleridge and White) expressed "great sadness" at the loss of their "beloved colleague," adding: "She was an inspiration: a peerless agent, a wonderful friend and greatly loved by colleagues, authors and friends alike."
Ishiguro said he was "groping for consolations in the face of this loss, but one of them is that she departed absolutely at the top of her game, knowing no decline. In the last few months, she was sharper, wiser, more energetic than at any time in the 34 years I've known her."
Rogers was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing at this year's London Book Fair.
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German author Stefanie Zweig, who wrote more than two dozen books, died April 25, the Associated Press reported. She was 81. A film adaptation of her 1995 autobiographical novel, Nowhere in Africa, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003.
