Website: http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp'story=629838
Date: Sun 17 Apr 2005

Julia Darling was a writer of great gifts and versatility and, in recent years, an extremely prolific one, writes Sean O'Brien. She wrote novels and short stories, plays and poetry, as well as collaborating frequently with painters, musicians and other artists. She was also an instigator and a teacher, though the latter word, which she viewed with suspicion, does not adequately suggest her power to excite and inspire a sense of possibility - in writing, in life - among the many who encountered her.

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