10 April 2014
Last updated at 20:40 ET
Townsend, 68, died at home on Thursday after a short illness.
The first of her comic series, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4, was published in 1982 and the eighth instalment, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, was released in 2009.
Her other best-selling novels included The Queen and I.
Townsend, who was left blind after suffering from diabetes for many years, achieved worldwide success following the publication of the books about teenager Adrian Mole.
Tributes
Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole books, dies after short illness
Sue Townsend achieved worldwide success with her books about the life of Adrian Mole
Novelist Sue Townsend,
best known as the author of the successful Adrian Mole series, has died,
a friend of her family has told the BBC.
The first of her comic series, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4, was published in 1982 and the eighth instalment, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, was released in 2009.
Her other best-selling novels included The Queen and I.
Townsend, who was left blind after suffering from diabetes for many years, achieved worldwide success following the publication of the books about teenager Adrian Mole.
Tributes
In March 2013, she told the Oxford Literary Festival that
publication of the next Adrian Mole book had been pushed back as a
result of a stroke she had suffered.
She was diagnosed with diabetes in the 1980s and underwent a kidney transplant in 2009. She had the stroke around Christmas 2012.
Tributes have been paid to the novelist on Twitter.
Actor Stephen Mangan said: "Greatly upset to hear that Sue Townsend has died. One of the warmest, funniest and wisest people I ever met."
Crime writer Ian Rankin described her death as "a real loss".
Author Danny Wallace tweeted: "Farewell, brilliant Sue Townsend. Rest in peace, Adrian Mole."
She was diagnosed with diabetes in the 1980s and underwent a kidney transplant in 2009. She had the stroke around Christmas 2012.
Tributes have been paid to the novelist on Twitter.
Actor Stephen Mangan said: "Greatly upset to hear that Sue Townsend has died. One of the warmest, funniest and wisest people I ever met."
Crime writer Ian Rankin described her death as "a real loss".
Author Danny Wallace tweeted: "Farewell, brilliant Sue Townsend. Rest in peace, Adrian Mole."
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