Editing Graham Greene (section)

== Final years ==
[[File:Graham Greene grave in Corseaux.JPG|thumb|Gravestone at [[Corseaux]], Switzerland]]

Greene left Britain in 1966, moving to [[Antibes]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Reading group: Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/15/reading-group-travels-with-my-aunt-greene |access-date=16 May 2022 |first=Sam |last=Jordison|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=15 June 2012 |language=en}}</ref> to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known since 1959, a relationship that endured until his death.<ref name="telly" /><ref name="oxforddnb.com" /> In 1973, he had an uncredited [[cameo appearance]] as an insurance company representative in [[François Truffaut]]'s film ''[[Day for Night (film)|Day for Night]]''.<ref name="caterson" /> In 1981, Greene was awarded the [[Jerusalem Prize]], awarded to writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society.<ref name="jbook" /><ref name="shipler">{{cite news| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/specials/greene-protests.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Israeli Book Fair Honors Greene, Amid Protests | first=David K. | last=Shipler | author-link=David K. Shipler | date=7 April 1981 | access-date=23 October 2024}}</ref>

He lived the last years of his life in [[Corseaux]], on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, near [[Vevey]] where [[Charlie Chaplin]] was living in at this time. He visited Chaplin often, and the two were good friends.<ref name=Swissinfo>{{cite web |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/extraordinary_exiles/Graham_Greene_finds_no_Swiss_cuckoo_clocks.html?cid=12832 |title=Graham Greene finds no Swiss cuckoo clocks |publisher=Swissinfo.ch |date=19 May 2006 |access-date=2 June 2010 |archive-date=22 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222032103/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/extraordinary_exiles/Graham_Greene_finds_no_Swiss_cuckoo_clocks.html?cid=12832 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{sfn|Sherry|2004|p=783}} His book ''[[Doctor Fischer of Geneva|Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party]]'' (1980) is based on themes of combined philosophical and geographical influences. He ceased going to mass and confession in the 1950s, but in his final years began to receive the sacraments again from Father Leopoldo Durán, a Spanish priest, who became a friend.{{sfn|Sherry|2004|pp=691, 695}}

In one of his final works, a pamphlet titled ''J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice'' (1982), Greene wrote of a legal matter that embroiled him and his extended family in [[Nice]], and declared that organised crime flourished in Nice because the city's upper levels of civic government protected judicial and police corruption. The accusation provoked a [[libel]] lawsuit that Greene lost,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/specials/greene-riviera.html|title=On the Riviera, A Morality Tale by Graham Greene|first=Richard|last=Eder|author-link=Richard Eder|date=5 February 1982|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> but he was ultimately vindicated in the 1990s when the former mayor of Nice, [[Jacques Médecin]], was imprisoned for corruption and associated crimes.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 April 1991 |title=Homage paid to Graham Greene |first=Colin |last=Randall |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |issue=42231 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/19/world/jacques-medecin-70-dies-french-mayor.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Jacques Medecin, 70, Dies; French Mayor | first=Craig R. | last=Whitney | date=19 November 1998 | access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref>{{sfn|Sherry|2004|pp=654-655}}

In 1984, in celebration of his 80th birthday, the [[Greene King Brewery|brewery]] which Greene's great-grandfather founded in 1799 made a special edition of its St. Edmund's Ale for him, with a special label in his honour.<ref name=Vinocur030385>{{cite magazine |last=Vinocur |first=John |date=3 March 1985 |title=The Soul-Searching Continues for Graham Greene: The celebrated writer; whose new book is a long-forgotten novella [''The Tenth Man''], still dwells on doubt and failure |magazine=[[New York Times Magazine]] |location=New York }}</ref> Commenting on turning 80, Greene said, "The big advantage ... is that at 80 you are more likely these days to beat out encountering your end in a nuclear war," adding, "the other side of the problem is that I really don't want to survive myself [which] has nothing to do with nukes, but with the body hanging around while the mind departs."<ref name=Vinocur030385/>

In 1986, Greene was awarded Britain's [[Order of Merit]]. He died of [[leukaemia]] in 1991 at the age of 86,<ref name=mcgowin /> and was buried in [[Corseaux]] cemetery.<ref name=Swissinfo />