Jackie Collins, Queen color pink literature, died at age 77 – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

All the books he wrote were bestseller the New York Times . Torrid romances without taboos and with lots of sex. Jackie Collins, a writer who was born in England but soon moved to the United States, died on Saturday in Los Angeles at age 77. Six years ago I was fighting against breast cancer.

                     

                          It was the queen of literature color pink, whose tales of extravagance and Glamour Hollywood sold over 500 million copies worldwide. Although the 50 Shades of Grey did not exist and Jackie Collins was already the biggest name of love stories, often erotic. It was published in over 40 countries.

Throughout his life he wrote more than 30 books, most of them with pages and pages of sexually explicit. He began writing as a teenager when he offered to colleagues short stories but it was only after 30 years that debuted in the literature with the novel The World Is Full of Married Men in 1968, and soon there was not lost. Jackie Collins saw his first work be banned from Australia and South Africa for her describe an extramarital sex scene.

Considered by many as an improper book and even of poor quality, years later, in 1979, The World Is Full of Married Men was adapted to film by Robert Young with Anthony Franciosa, Carroll Baker and Sherrie Lee Cronn as protagonists. Collins took the argument.

In Portugal, this novel was only published in 1988 by the Europe-America. It was indeed at this time, in the late 1980s and early next decade much of the Jackie Collins of work was edited by. If the Rock Star , The Stallion , Husbands of Hollywood , Women’s Success , The avengers , Women in Hollywood or The Millionaire -. all with the backing of Europe-America

In 1985, ABC adapted Women in Hollywood , about the glamorous lives of women who hid behind the camera in the film industry for a television miniseries with Anthony Hopkins and Candice Bergen.

younger sister of Joan Collins At
criticism of his writing, Collins responded that it was a “storyteller and not a literary writer.” “I never intended to be” read several times. Jackie Collins was the younger sister of actress Joan Collins, now 82. In the People , the actress said she was “completely devastated”. “I was my best friend. I admire the way she handled it. It was wonderful, brave, a beautiful person and I loved it. “

It was with the help of sister Jackie arrived early to the world of film, getting some small roles in little-known films. The novelist came to dating Marlon Brando, when they met in the 1950s at a Hollywood party. A relationship that Jackie Collins tried to keep secret for having at the time only 15 years. “He was at the height of his fame and was exceedingly beautiful,” he recalled a few years ago the author, explaining that he feared that revealing her age at “brief but fabulous novel,” Brando facing a police investigation that could lead to a penalty four years in prison.

He married twice and was attached to the second and final husband, Oscar Lerman, the author lived over 25 years. Lerman died in 1992.

It was in Hollywood who gained inspiration for their stories, often based on real events and people close to Collins. “I never felt ashamed to write about sex,” he said in 2001 in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think I helped the sex life of the people,” he continued. “Sex is an instigating force in the world and so do not think it’s unusual to write about sex. I try to make it erotic to. “

Many of Jackie Collins novels had a character in common, Lucky Santangelo. His latest book, The Santangelos , was released in October last year, and it was a return to the family of this beautiful, sensual and powerful heroine of his stories.

“She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by his family and friends and the millions of readers who amused for more than four decades. It was a true inspiration for women in fiction and creative force. Will now continue to live through their characters, “reads the statement that the children of the writer (Tracy, 54, Tiffany, 48, and Rory, 46) sent to the journal People .

It was just over a week that Collins, who maintained his fight against cancer in private, gave his last interview, saying that he regretted not anything he had done. “Now we just want to save the lives of others,” he said, explaining that you would with books about the disease.

Jackie Collins never stopped writing and would be working on new projects. It is possible that in the years to come more novels of the writer stores.