{
  "id": 18102576,
  "title": "Please Don’t Put in the Novel That I Died: Olivia Manning’s (Lightly) Fictionalized Novels",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/please-dont-put-in-the-novel-that-i-died-olivia-mannings-lightly",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-04T09:20:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/please-dont-put-in-the-novel-that-i-died-olivia-mannings-lightly-fictionalized-novels/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“I don’t want fame when I am dead,” Olivia Manning once complained. “I want it now.” Manning, the British novelist who died in 1980, carried grudges: never made the Booker shortlist, never got a “solo review” in the Sunday papers,",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}