Wed Apr three, 2013 7:49am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish author Iain Banks, whose publications contain "The Wasp Factory" has revealed he is suffering from cancer and is impossible to reside "beyond a year." The writer, who also wrote "The Crow Road" and "Complicity," declared his illness on his site on Wednesday and said he was closing all future public events. Banks, 59, said his problems stumbled on light after a visit to his medical practitioner of a aching back. Checks unveiled he was not only struggling with jaundice but in addition cancer in his gall bladder. "I am legally very poorly... I have cancer," he wrote, adding he is now on a quick honeymoon, after asking his companion Adele Hartley to "become my widow." Banks, who also writes science fiction under the title of Iain M Banks, said that as a late phase gall bladder cancer patient he's only expected to live for several months. "It is extremely unlikely I'll live beyond a year. So that it looks like my latest novel, 'The Quarry', will soon be my last," he added. Born in Fife, Banks analyzed at Stirling University before writing "The Wasp Factory", his first novel, in 1984. In 2008, he was called among the 50 best British writers since 1945 in a listing compiled by The Times. (Reporting by Li-mei Hoang, editing by Paul Casciato)
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