Theodore C. Olbermann, 80, the father of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, died Saturday of complications from colon surgery.
The former architect was thrust into the nation’s health care debate through commentaries made by his son on television. Keith Olbermann had talked on his weeknight cable news show about his father’s experiences in the hospital and how his family dealt with them. Three weeks ago he talked on TV about how his suffering father had asked to be killed.
Miguel Delibes, 89, an acclaimed and prolific novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain, died of cancer Friday at his home in Valladolid, Spanish National Radio said, citing his family. Delibes started off as a cartoonist for a newspaper before becoming a reporter, editor and finally a novelist in a career spanning more than 50 years. He won the Spanish-speaking world’s top literary award, the Cervantes Prize, in 1993, among other accolades.
