Blanche d’Alpuget dies aged 82 | 7NEWS

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Acclaimed Australian author, biographer and journalist Blanche d’Alpuget has died at age 82 from influenza complications related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Best known for writing Australia’s best-selling biography of Bob Hawke and her controversial decades-long affair with the former Prime Minister, d’Alpuget penned more than a dozen award-winning fiction and non-fiction works including Turtle Beach.

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