Burak Bekdil
Turkish columnistDied on Sunday October 22nd 2023
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Álvaro Sanjurjo Toucon
Uruguayan film criticDied on Saturday October 21st 2023
Hiba Kamal Abu Nada
poetDied on Saturday October 21st 2023
David P. Webster
Scottish authorDied on Thursday October 19th 2023
Vincent Patrick
American author and screenwriter (The Pope of Greenwich VillageDied on Thursday October 19th 2023
Roger Greenhalgh
British academic and writerDied on Wednesday October 18th 2023
Seong Ki-jo
South Korean poetDied on Wednesday October 18th 2023
Chittaranjan Nepali
Nepalese writer and historianDied on Tuesday October 17th 2023
Mercedes Vostell
Spanish writerDied on Monday October 16th 2023
Michel Lapierre
Canadian writer and journalist (IciDied on Monday October 16th 2023
Song Kijo
South Korean poetDied on Monday October 16th 2023
Seong Seong-jo
South Korean poetDied on Monday October 16th 2023
Nesipbek Ayt
Kazakh poetDied on Monday October 16th 2023
Remei Margarit
Spanish Catalan singer-songwriter and writerDied on Saturday October 14th 2023
Louise Glück
American poetDied on Friday October 13th 2023
Rein Saluri
Estonian writer and playwrightDied on Friday October 13th 2023
Eve Bunting
American authorDied on Friday October 13th 2023
Olga Fokina
Russian poetDied on Thursday October 12th 2023
Keith Giffen
American comics artist and writer (LoboDied on Thursday October 12th 2023
Louise Meriwether
American author (Daddy Was a Number Runner) and activistDied on Wednesday October 11th 2023
Daniel Giraud
French essayistDied on Tuesday October 10th 2023
Críostóir Ó Floinn
Irish writerDied on Tuesday October 10th 2023
Kim Namjo
South Korean poetDied on Tuesday October 10th 2023
Anthony Holden
British writerDied on Monday October 9th 2023
David Benedictus
English novelist (The Fourth of JuneDied on Monday October 9th 2023
Allan Weisbecker
American surfer and novelistDied on Monday October 9th 2023
James Jorden
American journalist and music critic (Parterre Box)Died on Monday October 9th 2023
Beno Budar
Sorbian writerDied on Sunday October 8th 2023
Andrey Dobrynin
Russian poetDied on Sunday October 8th 2023
Terence Davies
British screenwriter and film director (Distant VoicesDied on Saturday October 7th 2023
Asad Chowdhury
Bangladeshi poetDied on Thursday October 5th 2023
Marina Mizzau
Italian writer and essayistDied on Thursday October 5th 2023
Sissel Lange-Nielsen
Norwegian writerDied on Wednesday October 4th 2023
Kamal Ruhayyim
Egyptian writer (Diary of a Jewish MuslimDied on Wednesday October 4th 2023
Trienke Laurie
South African poetDied on Wednesday October 4th 2023
Johannes Kühn
German poetDied on Wednesday October 4th 2023
Petar Sarić
Serbian poet and prose writerDied on Wednesday October 4th 2023
Wang Wen-hsing
Taiwanese novelistDied on Tuesday October 3rd 2023
Jim Caple
American sports journalist and writerDied on Monday October 2nd 2023
Tripurari Sharma
Indian playwrightDied on Monday October 2nd 2023
Khaled Khalifa
Syrian novelistDied on Sunday October 1st 2023
Ganira Pashayeva
Azerbaijani politician and poetDied on Thursday September 28th 2023
Maurice Leitch
Northern Irish author (Silver's CityDied on Thursday September 28th 2023
Fayez Rashid
Palestinian political writerDied on Thursday September 28th 2023
Bernard Toublanc-Michel
French film director and screenwriterDied on Wednesday September 27th 2023
Dorra Bouzid
Tunisian feminist and art criticDied on Tuesday September 26th 2023
Zoleka Mandela
South African writerDied on Tuesday September 26th 2023
Volodymyr Khmelnytskyi
Ukrainian film director and screenwriterDied on Monday September 25th 2023
Vladimir Khmelnitsky
Ukrainian film director and screenwriterDied on Monday September 25th 2023
Erik Aschengreen
Danish historian and dance criticDied on Monday September 25th 2023
Václav Šašek
Czech screenwriter (Intimate LightingDied on Saturday September 23rd 2023
Boris Ostanin
Russian writerDied on Saturday September 23rd 2023
Maria Carmem Barbosa
Brazilian playwright and screenwriter (Olho no OlhoDied on Friday September 22nd 2023
Eugenia Viteri
Ecuadorian writerDied on Friday September 22nd 2023
Dione Venables
English novelist and publisherDied on Thursday September 21st 2023
Mubarak Qazi
Pakistani poetDied on Wednesday September 20th 2023
Syed Salahuddin Zaki
Bangladeshi film director (Ghuddi) and screenwriter (Nodir Naam ModhumotiDied on Tuesday September 19th 2023
David Fennario
Canadian playwrightDied on Monday September 18th 2023
Torsti Lehtinen
Finnish writer and philosopherDied on Monday September 18th 2023
Helvi Jürisson
Estonian poetDied on Sunday September 17th 2023
Nikolai Dobronravov
Russian poetDied on Saturday September 16th 2023
Gita Mehta
Indian-American writer and documentary filmmakerDied on Saturday September 16th 2023
C. R. Omanakuttan
Indian writer and humoristDied on Saturday September 16th 2023
Mohammad Mohammad-Ali
Iranian writerDied on Friday September 15th 2023
Éva Fahidi
Hungarian Holocaust survivor and authorDied on Monday September 11th 2023
Frédérique Hébrard
French screenwriter and actressDied on Saturday September 9th 2023
Gareth Miles
Welsh author and translatorDied on Friday September 8th 2023
Guðbergur Bergsson
Icelandic writerDied on Friday September 8th 2023
Denis Monette
Canadian writer and journalistDied on Wednesday September 6th 2023
Jürgen Claus
German painter and authorDied on Wednesday September 6th 2023
Molly Holzschlag
American authorDied on Wednesday September 6th 2023
Sarah Young
American author (Jesus Calling)Died on Tuesday September 5th 2023
Robert Klane
American screenwriter (Where's Poppa?Died on Monday September 4th 2023
Walter Arlen
Austrian-born American composer and music criticDied on Monday September 4th 2023
Karim Al Iraqi
Iraqi poetDied on Friday September 1st 2023
Tina Howe
American playwright (Pride's CrossingDied on Tuesday August 29th 2023
Maria Müller-Sommer
German writerDied on Tuesday August 29th 2023
Marko Vešović
Bosnian-Montenegrin writerDied on Monday August 28th 2023
Éléonore Faucher
French film director and screenwriter (A Common Thread)Died on Monday August 28th 2023
Jayanta Mahapatra
Indian poetDied on Sunday August 27th 2023
Bert Papenfuß
German poetDied on Sunday August 27th 2023
Walt Curtis
American poetDied on Saturday August 26th 2023
Abwan Jama Kadiye
Somali poetDied on Saturday August 26th 2023
Tineke Beishuizen
Dutch authorDied on Saturday August 26th 2023
Georgi Marchuk
Belorussian writerDied on Saturday August 26th 2023
Yoel Hoffmann
Israeli writer and translatorDied on Saturday August 26th 2023
Ignacio Solares
Mexican writerDied on Friday August 25th 2023
Michael Anthony
Trinidadian authorDied on Friday August 25th 2023
Marga T
Indonesian authorDied on Thursday August 24th 2023
Mark Kemble
American playwrightDied on Wednesday August 23rd 2023
Ebrahim Golestan
Iranian-British filmmaker and writerDied on Wednesday August 23rd 2023