[HIGHLIGHTS] British novelist Martin Amis has died at 73

British novelist Martin Amis died Friday at his Florida home at age 73. His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told The New York Times and the Guardian that the author had died of esophageal cancer.

His death occurred on the day of the presentation in Cannes of a film inspired by his book "The Zone of Interest" "He was one of the most acclaimed and commented authors in the last 50 years," said the institution of the prestigious British literary prize, the Booker Prize.