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| Italian writer Umberto Eco dies at 84 | Italian writer Umberto Eco dies at 84 |
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| The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, has died aged 84. | |
| His family says he passed away late on Friday at his home. No further details were given. | |
| The Name of the Rose was made into a film in 1989 starring Scottish actor Sean Connery. | |
| Eco, who also wrote the novel Foucault's Pendulum, continued to publish new works, with Year Zero released last year. | |
| He also wrote children's books and literary criticism. | |
| Eco once wrote that "books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told". | |
| "I am a philosopher," he was quoted as saying. "I write novels only on the weekends." | |
| Eco founded the communications department at the University of San Marino in the 1980s. | |
| He was later professor emeritus and chairman of the Higher School of Humanities of the University of Bologna. | |
| Eco was born in Alessandria, northern Italy, in 1932. |