British author Paul Torday dies at 67
December 20, 2013  02:33
British novelist Paul Torday, who had a surprise best-seller with his debut novel "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," has died at age 67, his publisher said today.  

Torday died at home in Northumberland a day earlier, surrounded by his family, said publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson. It did not provide a cause of death. 

Torday launched his writing career in his late fifties, publishing "Salmon Fishing on the Yemen" in 2007, the story of a rich sheik who dreams of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to his desert country. 

The novel was adapted into a 2011 film starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, with Blunt as the sheik's representative and McGregor as a cynical fisheries expert who begrudgingly accepts the challenge. 
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