Author Iain Banks has lost his battle with cancer and has died at the age of 59.
The Scottish writer passed away just two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, the BBC reports.
Banks revealed in April that he was suffering from terminal gall bladder cancer and was unlikely to live for more than a year.
In a statement, his publisher said he was “an irreplaceable part of the literary world”.
He was best known for his books The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Complicity.
Iain Banks announced in April that he was suffering from terminal cancer.
