Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries

Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.

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

Serge Roullet

French film director and screenwriter (The Wall
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

Milan Hamada

Slovak literary critic
Died on Monday February 20th 2023

Henry McDonald

Northern Irish writer and journalist
Died on Sunday February 19th 2023

Suzanne Sens

French author and teacher
Died on Wednesday February 15th 2023

D. R. Thorpe

British historian and biographer
Died on Sunday February 12th 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

Hsing Yun, Father of the modern Humanistic Buddhism movement in Taiwan, died on February 5, 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…

Kit Hesketh-Harvey

British comedian (Kit and The Widow) and screenwriter (The Vicar of Dibley)
Died on Wednesday February 1st 2023

Max Huwyler

Swiss writer
Died on Tuesday January 31st 2023

Ted Bell

American novelist
Died on Friday January 27th 2023

German Klimov

Russian athlete and screenwriter (Sport
Died on Tuesday January 24th 2023

Eugenio Martín, Spanish film director, died on January 23, 2023

Eugenio Martín dead at age 97

Eugenio Martín, the Spanish film director and screenwriter known for low-budget genre films in the 1960s and 1970s,
died on January 23, 2023, aged 97. Born Eugenio Martín Márquez in…

Andrew Jones

Welsh screenwriter
Died on Tuesday January 17th 2023

Fañch Peru

French teacher and writer
Died on Tuesday January 17th 2023

Balamurugan

Indian screenwriter (Bantrothu Bharya
Died on Monday January 16th 2023

Gordana Kuić

Serbian novelist (The Scent of Rain in the Balkans)
Died on Sunday January 15th 2023

Sanjay Chauhan

Indian screenwriter (I Am Kalam
Died on Thursday January 12th 2023

Lew Hunter

American screenwriter and screenwriting teacher
Died on Thursday January 12th 2023