Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Gianni Bisiach
Italian journalist and writer
Died on Sunday November 20th 2022
Hadar Tadmor
Israeli radio broadcaster and screenwriter
Died on Saturday November 19th 2022
Udo Walendy
German author and Holocaust denier
Died on Friday November 18th 2022
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist (OS/360) and writer (The Mythical Man-Month)
Died on Friday November 18th 2022
Guy Vassal
French playwright
Died on Friday November 18th 2022
B. Harikumar
Indian actor and writer
Died on Thursday November 17th 2022
Marcus Sedgwick
British novelist (Floodland
Died on Thursday November 17th 2022
José León Sánchez
Costa Rican novelist
Died on Wednesday November 16th 2022
Philippe Corentin
French author and illustrator
Died on Wednesday November 16th 2022
Jean-Philippe Omotunde
French writer
Died on Wednesday November 16th 2022
Sir Simon Towneley
British author
Died on Wednesday November 16th 2022
Alejandro Chomski
Argentine film director and screenwriter (Today and Tomorrow
Died on Tuesday November 15th 2022
Anne Fakhouri
French author
Died on Tuesday November 15th 2022
Éamon Phoenix
Irish historian and author
Died on Monday November 14th 2022
Jaap R. Bruijn
Dutch maritime historian and author Leiden University
Died on Thursday November 10th 2022
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
Malaysian academic and writer
Died on Thursday November 10th 2022
Lê Lựu
Vietnamese writer
Died on Thursday November 10th 2022
Myrna Casas
Puerto Rican experimental playwright and actress
Died on Thursday November 10th 2022
Kendrick Frazier
American science fiction writer and skeptic (Skeptical Inquirer)
Died on Wednesday November 9th 2022
Brian O’Doherty
Irish art critic
Died on Tuesday November 8th 2022
Rebecca Godfrey
Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer
Died on Sunday November 6th 2022
Doris Grumbach
American author
Died on Saturday November 5th 2022
Charles Nokan
Ivorian academic and writer
Died on Saturday November 5th 2022
David Davis
American television writer and producer
Died on Saturday November 5th 2022
G. S. Varadachary
Indian film critic and journalist
Died on Saturday November 5th 2022
Douglas McGrath
American screenwriter
Died on Friday November 4th 2022
Philippe Alexandre
French journalist and writer
Died on Thursday November 3rd 2022
T. P. Rajeevan
Indian novelist (Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha)
Died on Wednesday November 2nd 2022
Gael Greene
American restaurant critic
Died on Wednesday November 2nd 2022
Moshe Ha-Elion
Greek-born Israeli Holocaust survivor and writer
Died on Tuesday November 1st 2022
Raj Kanwar
Indian journalist and writer
Died on Tuesday November 1st 2022
Andrey Martyanov
Russian writer and translator
Died on Sunday October 30th 2022
Thomas Cahill
American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization)
Died on Saturday October 29th 2022
Ian Jack
British journalist and writer
Died on Saturday October 29th 2022
Hava Pinhas-Cohen
Israeli poet and writer
Died on Saturday October 29th 2022
Lucianne Goldberg
American literary agent and author
Died on Thursday October 27th 2022
Vladimir Kostrov
Russian poet
Died on Thursday October 27th 2022
Gerald Stern dead at age 97, Poet, educator
Gerald Stern, the poet and educator,
died on October 27, 2022, at age 97. An American writer born in Pittsburgh, he was known as an essayist as well as a…
John Jay Osborn Jr.
American author (The Paper Chase)
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2022
Leszek Engelking
Polish writer and translator
Died on Sunday October 23rd 2022
Natalia Kohen
Argentinian painter and writer
Died on Sunday October 23rd 2022
Tom Maddox
American science fiction writer
Died on Saturday October 22nd 2022
Lori Saint-Martin
Canadian writer and translator
Died on Saturday October 22nd 2022
Peter Schjeldahl
American art critic
Died on Saturday October 22nd 2022
Gustav Oplustil
Czech screenwriter and dramaturge
Died on Friday October 21st 2022
Jacques Brault
Canadian poet and translator
Died on Friday October 21st 2022
Alastair Fowler
Scottish literary critic and editor
Died on Thursday October 20th 2022
Anton Donchev
Bulgarian writer (Time of Parting)
Died on Thursday October 20th 2022
Ali Tehrani
Iranian Shia Islamic theologian and writer
Died on Thursday October 20th 2022
Eugen Simion
Romanian essayist and historian
Died on Tuesday October 18th 2022
Vidmantas Bačiulis
Lithuanian screenwriter and film director
Died on Monday October 17th 2022
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Singaporean poet and writer
Died on Friday October 14th 2022
Subbu Arumugam
Indian writer and theatre artist
Died on Monday October 10th 2022
Temsüla Ao
Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head)
Died on Monday October 10th 2022
Oleh Chornohuz
Ukrainian writer and journalist
Died on Sunday October 9th 2022
Oleg Chornoguz
Ukrainian writer and journalist
Died on Saturday October 8th 2022
Lenny Lipton
American poet and lyricist
Died on Thursday October 6th 2022
Noé Jitrik
Argentine literary critic
Died on Thursday October 6th 2022
Marguerite Andersen
German-born Canadian francophone writer
Died on Thursday October 6th 2022
Nicolas Belfrage
American-born British wine critic and writer
Died on Thursday October 6th 2022
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
German film director and screenwriter
Died on Wednesday October 5th 2022
Kim Dong-gil
South Korean poet and politician
Died on Wednesday October 5th 2022
Charles Fuller
American playwright (A Soldier's Play
Died on Tuesday October 4th 2022
Zhang Qiusheng
Chinese children's book writer
Died on Tuesday October 4th 2022
Wong Phui Nam
Malaysian economist and poet
Died on Tuesday October 4th 2022
William G. Borchert
American screenwriter
Died on Monday October 3rd 2022
Jerzy Urban
Polish journalist and writer
Died on Monday October 3rd 2022
Roger Welsch
American television correspondent and author
Died on Saturday October 1st 2022
Alberto Papuzzi
Italian journalist and writer
Died on Friday September 30th 2022
Peter Yeldham
Australian screenwriter
Died on Friday September 30th 2022
Meredith Tax
American writer and political activist
Died on Tuesday September 27th 2022
Knud Sørensen
Danish writer and poet
Died on Tuesday September 27th 2022
Prema Srinivasan
Indian children's book writer
Died on Tuesday September 27th 2022
Jeff Weiss
American actor and dramatist
Died on Monday September 26th 2022
Zack Estrin
American television writer and producer
Died on Sunday September 25th 2022
Dale McRaven
American television writer and producer (Perfect Strangers
Died on Sunday September 25th 2022
Kim Seong-Dong
South Korean writer
Died on Sunday September 25th 2022
Boris Dobrodeev
Russian screenwriter (The First Teacher
Died on Friday September 23rd 2022