Maria Koleva
Bulgarian-born French writer and filmmaker
Died on Tuesday May 27th 2025
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Miroslav Vaic
Czech screenwriter and playwright
Died on Monday May 26th 2025
Peter David
American comic book writer (The Incredible Hulk
Died on Sunday May 25th 2025
Michael Roemer
American film director and screenwriter (Nothing but a Man
Died on Sunday May 25th 2025
Susan Brownmiller
American journalist and author (Against Our Will)
Died on Sunday May 25th 2025
Gordon Wenham
British religious scholar and writer
Died on Saturday May 24th 2025
Sarah Kramer
Canadian vegan cookbook author
Died on Saturday May 24th 2025
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Algerian film director and screenwriter
Died on Friday May 23rd 2025
Victoria Brownworth
American writer and journalist
Died on Friday May 23rd 2025
Yuri Nikitin
Russian author
Died on Friday May 23rd 2025
Jørgen Gunnerud
Norwegian crime fiction writer
Died on Friday May 23rd 2025
Anne Cheynet
French author
Died on Friday May 23rd 2025
Alice Notley
American poet
Died on Thursday May 22nd 2025
Dalene Young
American screenwriter (Cross Creek
Died on Wednesday May 21st 2025
Barry Fantoni
British author and cartoonist (Private Eye)
Died on Wednesday May 21st 2025
Marthe Cohn
French spy and author (Behind Enemy Lines)
Died on Wednesday May 21st 2025
Kay Arthur
American author
Died on Tuesday May 20th 2025
Matthew Courtney
American poet and visual artist
Died on Tuesday May 20th 2025
Gawn Grainger
Scottish actor and writer
Died on Tuesday May 20th 2025
Leslie Epstein
American writer and academic
Died on Tuesday May 20th 2025
Paul Durcan
Irish poet
Died on Saturday May 17th 2025
Yaak Karsunke
German author and actor
Died on Saturday May 17th 2025
Brian Glanville
English football writer and novelist
Died on Saturday May 17th 2025
Gerard Soeteman
Dutch screenwriter (The Assault
Died on Friday May 16th 2025
Angeline Solange Bonono
Cameroonian writer
Died on Friday May 16th 2025
Robert Brooke
English cricket writer
Died on Friday May 16th 2025
Chufo Lloréns
Spanish writer
Died on Friday May 16th 2025
Jan Terlouw
Dutch politician (and author (Winter in Wartime)
Died on Friday May 16th 2025
Fadéla M’rabet
Algerian writer
Died on Wednesday May 14th 2025
Nandalike Balachandra Rao
Indian journalist and writer
Died on Wednesday May 14th 2025
Robert Benton
American filmmaker and screenwriter (Bonnie and Clyde
Died on Tuesday May 13th 2025
Aidan Chambers
English writer
Died on Tuesday May 13th 2025
André Berland
French historian and biographer
Died on Monday May 12th 2025
Peter Morwood
Irish novelist (The Dragon Lord)
Died on Saturday May 10th 2025
Carlos Ferrari
Argentine-Puerto Rican playwright and theatrical director
Died on Saturday May 10th 2025
David Cope
American author
Died on Friday May 9th 2025
Miloš Zapletal
Czech writer
Died on Friday May 9th 2025
Kim Yeong-hyeon
South Korean poet and novelist
Died on Friday May 9th 2025
Joan de Sagarra
Spanish writer and journalist
Died on Friday May 9th 2025
Øyvind Thorsen
Norwegian writer
Died on Friday May 9th 2025
Yun Humyong
South Korean poet
Died on Thursday May 8th 2025
Alexey Gogua
Abkhaz writer
Died on Thursday May 8th 2025
David Young
American poet
Died on Thursday May 8th 2025
Steve Pepoon
American television writer (ALF
Died on Thursday May 8th 2025
Angelo Rinaldi
French writer and literary critic
Died on Wednesday May 7th 2025
Iain Finlay
Australian author and journalist
Died on Wednesday May 7th 2025
Tracy Sorensen
Australian novelist and academic
Died on Wednesday May 7th 2025
Valeriy Shevchuk
Ukrainian writer
Died on Tuesday May 6th 2025
Hữu Ngọc
Vietnamese writer and journalist
Died on Sunday May 4th 2025
Marie Vaislic
French Holocaust survivor and writer
Died on Saturday May 3rd 2025
Joshua Clover
American poet and writer
Died on Saturday May 3rd 2025
Hans-Günter Richardi
German author and journalist
Died on Saturday May 3rd 2025
Andrew Gross
American author
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2025
Rafiz Ismayilov
Azerbaijani film director and screenwriter
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2025
Gwen Davies
American novelist and playwright
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2025
Richard Vines
British food critic (Bloomberg News)
Died on Wednesday April 30th 2025
Jane Gardam
English author (The Queen of the Tambourine
Died on Tuesday April 29th 2025
Alexandra Fröhlich
German journalist and writer
Died on Monday April 28th 2025
Daud Haider
Bangladeshi poet
Died on Sunday April 27th 2025
Jean-Claude Germain
Canadian playwright and author
Died on Friday April 25th 2025
Peter von Matt
Swiss philologist and author
Died on Tuesday April 22nd 2025
Damien Broderick
Australian author (The White Abacus
Died on Tuesday April 22nd 2025
Wayne Clifford
Canadian poet and academic
Died on Monday April 21st 2025
Neža Maurer
Slovene poet and writer
Died on Sunday April 20th 2025
Jennifer Toth
American journalist and writer
Died on Saturday April 19th 2025
Rose Kerketta
Indian writer
Died on Thursday April 17th 2025
Ljubomir Simović
Serbian writer
Died on Thursday April 17th 2025
Bill Aitken
British-born Indian travel writer and mountain lover from Scotland
Died on Thursday April 17th 2025
Konstantin Kedrov
Russian poet
Died on Wednesday April 16th 2025
Francis Davis
American author and journalist (The Village Voice
Died on Wednesday April 16th 2025
Ernest Volkman
American journalist and author
Died on Wednesday April 16th 2025
Seo Jeong-in
South Korean writer
Died on Tuesday April 15th 2025
Oleksandr Muratov
Ukrainian film director and screenwriter
Died on Monday April 14th 2025
Aleksandr Muratov
Ukrainian film director and screenwriter
Died on Monday April 14th 2025
Harry Humes
American poet
Died on Monday April 14th 2025
Filip David
Serbian writer and screenwriter
Died on Monday April 14th 2025
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian writer (The Time of the Hero
Died on Monday April 14th 2025
Jean Marsh
British actress and writer (Upstairs
Died on Sunday April 13th 2025
Mike Bradwell
British theatre director and playwright
Died on Saturday April 12th 2025
Peter Lovesey
British writer
Died on Thursday April 10th 2025
Luis Felipe Noé
Argentine painter and writer
Died on Thursday April 10th 2025
Carl-Göran Ekerwald
Swedish novelist and literary critic
Died on Thursday April 10th 2025
Cathy Bernheim
French novelist and journalist
Died on Wednesday April 9th 2025
Yuriy Korotkov
Russian writer and screenwriter (Crash – Cop's Daughter
Died on Wednesday April 9th 2025
Jesse Kornbluth
American journalist and author
Died on Monday April 7th 2025
Jean Van Leeuwen
American children's author
Died on Friday April 4th 2025
M. Hasna Maznavi
American writer
Died on Friday April 4th 2025
Nancy Huddleston Packer
American writer
Died on Friday April 4th 2025
Daniel Kluger
Israeli writer
Died on Thursday April 3rd 2025
Ottó Tolnai
Serbo-Hungarian writer
Died on Wednesday April 2nd 2025
Barbara Frischmuth
Austrian writer
Died on Monday March 31st 2025
Yves Boisset
French film director and screenwriter
Died on Monday March 31st 2025
Prem Parkash
Indian writer
Died on Sunday March 30th 2025
Andrew Cohen
American spiritual teacher and author
Died on Sunday March 30th 2025
Harikrishna Pathak
Indian poet
Died on Sunday March 30th 2025
Vittorio Orsenigo
Italian novelist
Died on Sunday March 30th 2025