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The Australian's Colleen McCullough obituary provokes social response through #MyOzObituary

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By Stephen Lepitak, -

January 31, 2015 | 3 min read

An obituary written following the death of Australian author Colleen McCullough has provoked an online response after it described her in the introduction as “plain of feature and certainly overweight” and led to the creation of the social media trend #myozobituary.

The obituary for the Thorn Birds author who died on Wednesday, was published by the Australian and has been described as 'sexist'. It also led to the creation of the social media trend describing other famous male authors in less than polite terms.

Spoof obituaries have since been written for authors such as James Joyce, Roald Dahl, JRR Tolkien and even the very much alive publisher of the Australian, Rupert Murdoch.

Other authors have released their own self-penned obituaries in an effort to mock the Australian, including Neil Gaiman and Jane Caro.

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