Late each December in Britain the “Honours List” announces who will receive knighthoods – among other royal honors – for the coming year. This year, the list included Terry Pratchett, a best-selling science fiction author who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and has become active in raising awareness about the disease.
Pratchett is the creator of the Discworld series with more than 60 million books in print which have been translated into more than three dozen languages. He had received the Order of the British Empire in 1998.
It was just last year that Pratchett went public with the fact that he was seeing signs in himself of Alzheimer’s in its early stages. He promised to continue writing, but he has done more than that.
In addition to raising public awareness of the disease, Pratchett has spoken to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at his Downing Street home to request more funding for research into the effects of Alzheimer’s, such as dementia. He also donated more than $700,000 to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust. Finally, he has become an official celebrity patron of the trust.
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