D. M. Thomas
British poet
Died on Tuesday March 28th 2023
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
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Wendy Barker
American poet
Died on Tuesday March 28th 2023
Margareta Strömstedt
Swedish author
Died on Tuesday March 28th 2023
Vikraman Nair
Indian actor (Virus) and playwright
Died on Tuesday March 28th 2023
Gianni Minà
Italian journalist (RAI) and writer
Died on Monday March 27th 2023
María Kodama
Argentinian writer
Died on Sunday March 26th 2023
Howard Fergus
Montserratian author and historian
Died on Friday March 24th 2023
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet
Died on Friday March 24th 2023
Connie Martinson
American writer and television personality
Died on Thursday March 23rd 2023
Norman Steinberg
American screenwriter (Blazing Saddles
Died on Wednesday March 22nd 2023
Michael Reaves
American screenwriter (Gargoyles
Died on Wednesday March 22nd 2023
Anna Sujatha Mathai
Indian poet
Died on Wednesday March 22nd 2023
Harri Nykänen
Finnish writer
Died on Tuesday March 21st 2023
Francesco Maselli
Italian film director and screenwriter (Time of Indifference
Died on Tuesday March 21st 2023
Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie
Iraqi novelist (The Tattoo Mark)
Died on Monday March 20th 2023
Jacques Boigelot
Belgian film director and screenwriter
Died on Saturday March 18th 2023
Hal Dresner
American screenwriter (The Eiger Sanction
Died on Saturday March 18th 2023
Momoko Kuroda
Japanese haiku poet and essayist
Died on Saturday March 18th 2023
Dubravka Ugrešić
Yugoslav and Croatian and Dutch writer
Died on Friday March 17th 2023
Jacques Cossette-Trudel
Canadian screenwriter
Died on Friday March 17th 2023
Isabel Colegate
British author and literary agent
Died on Friday March 17th 2023
Patrick French
British writer and historian (Tibet
Died on Thursday March 16th 2023
Louisette Dussault
Canadian actress and writer
Died on Wednesday March 15th 2023
Richard Wagner
Romanian-born German novelist
Died on Tuesday March 14th 2023
Dai Yinglu
Chinese screenwriter (Journey to the West) and playwright
Died on Tuesday March 14th 2023
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japanese novelist and Nobel Prize Lauriate
Died on Monday March 13th 2023
Lily Yulianti Farid
Indonesian writer
Died on Saturday March 11th 2023
Alexis Parnis
Greek playwright
Died on Saturday March 11th 2023
Dolores Klaich
American author and activist
Died on Saturday March 11th 2023
Marat Sarulu
Kyrgyz film director and screenwriter (Songs from the Southern Seas)
Died on Thursday March 9th 2023
Bert I. Gordon
American film director and screenwriter (Village of the Giants
Died on Wednesday March 8th 2023
James Douglass West
American television writer (Lassie)
Died on Wednesday March 8th 2023
Salvador García-Bodaño
Spanish poet
Died on Wednesday March 8th 2023
Ian Falconer
American author (Olivia) and illustrator (The New Yorker)
Died on Wednesday March 8th 2023
Sylviane Telchid
Guadeloupean writer
Died on Sunday March 5th 2023
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
Indian novelist (Pandab Goenda)
Died on Friday March 3rd 2023
Anise Koltz
Luxembourgish author
Died on Thursday March 2nd 2023
Aleksey Dudarev
Belarussian playwright
Died on Wednesday March 1st 2023
Irving Wardle
English theatre critic and writer
Died on Tuesday February 28th 2023
Georgios Romeos
Greek writer and politician
Died on Monday February 27th 2023
Serge Roullet
French film director and screenwriter (The Wall
Died on Monday February 27th 2023
Ilse Tielsch
Austrian writer
Died on Monday February 27th 2023
Dave Hollis
American studio executive (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) and motivational author
Died on Sunday February 26th 2023
Mihai Șora
Romanian philosopher and essayist
Died on Saturday February 25th 2023
Juraj Jakubisko
Slovak film director and screenwriter (Birds
Died on Saturday February 25th 2023
Philip Ziegler
British biographer and historian
Died on Friday February 24th 2023
Clemens Arvay
Austrian biologist and writer
Died on Thursday February 23rd 2023
Tatiana Lobo
Costa Rican writer
Died on Thursday February 23rd 2023
Michael S. Heiser
American biblical scholar and author
Died on Tuesday February 21st 2023
Milan Hamada
Slovak literary critic
Died on Monday February 20th 2023
Henry McDonald
Northern Irish writer and journalist
Died on Sunday February 19th 2023
Helen Fogwill Porter
Canadian author
Died on Saturday February 18th 2023
Donald Spoto
American biographer
Died on Friday February 17th 2023
Gunnar Heinsohn
German author
Died on Friday February 17th 2023
Philippe Lopes-Curval
French film director and screenwriter (The Chorus
Died on Wednesday February 15th 2023
Suzanne Sens
French author and teacher
Died on Wednesday February 15th 2023
Giampiero Neri
Italian poet
Died on Wednesday February 15th 2023
Oh Takbeon
South Korean writer
Died on Wednesday February 15th 2023
Marwan G. Najjar
Lebanese screenwriter
Died on Tuesday February 14th 2023
Alain Lacouchie
French poet
Died on Tuesday February 14th 2023
Agnès Laroche
French author and novelist
Died on Tuesday February 14th 2023
D. R. Thorpe
British historian and biographer
Died on Sunday February 12th 2023
Lualhati Bautista
Filipino novelist (Dekada '70
Died on Sunday February 12th 2023
Nicolò Mineo
Italian literary critic
Died on Saturday February 11th 2023
Renato Del Ponte
Italian essayist
Died on Saturday February 11th 2023
Amjad Islam Amjad
Pakistani poet and screenwriter (Waris
Died on Friday February 10th 2023
Inge Sargent
Austrian-American author and human rights activist
Died on Tuesday February 7th 2023
Gennadiy Bazarov
Kirghiz film director and screenwriter
Died on Monday February 6th 2023
Arnold Schulman
American screenwriter (Love With the Proper Stranger
Died on Monday February 6th 2023
Josep Maria Espinàs
Spanish language writer
Died on Sunday February 5th 2023
May Sayegh
Palestinian poet and political activist
Died on Sunday February 5th 2023
Hsing Yun dead at age 95
Hsing Yun, the Buddhist monk and founder of Taiwan’s Fo Guang Shan order,
died on February 5, 2023, aged 95. Widely described as the father of the modern Humanistic Buddhism…
Gabrielle Williams
Australian author
Died on Friday February 3rd 2023
James Alexander Thom
American author
Died on Friday February 3rd 2023
Solomon Perel
German-born Israeli author and motivational speaker
Died on Thursday February 2nd 2023
Charles Silverstein
American writer (The Joy of Gay Sex)
Died on Thursday February 2nd 2023
Kit Hesketh-Harvey
British comedian (Kit and The Widow) and screenwriter (The Vicar of Dibley)
Died on Wednesday February 1st 2023
Landon Pearson
Canadian author and politician
Died on Wednesday February 1st 2023