Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Muriel Phillips
American World War II veteran and writerDied on Tuesday July 5th 2022
Remco Campert
Dutch writerDied on Monday July 4th 2022
Ni Kuang
Hong Kong screenwriter (One-Armed SwordsmanDied on Sunday July 3rd 2022
Fina García Marruz
Cuban poetDied on Tuesday June 28th 2022
Rosemary Catacalos
American poetDied on Tuesday June 28th 2022
Raffaele La Capria
Italian writerDied on Monday June 27th 2022
Frank Moorhouse
Australian writerDied on Sunday June 26th 2022
L. Patrick Devlin
American lecturer and authorDied on Friday June 24th 2022
Alphonse Allain
French poetDied on Friday June 24th 2022
Gerd Grønvold Saue
Norwegian writerDied on Thursday June 23rd 2022
Xhevdet Bajraj
Albanian Kosovar poet and screenwriterDied on Thursday June 23rd 2022
Ancelin Roseti
Romanian poetDied on Wednesday June 22nd 2022
Gérard Bonal
French writer and biographerDied on Wednesday June 22nd 2022
José García-Pérez
Spanish writer and politicianDied on Wednesday June 22nd 2022
Jay Hopler
American poetDied on Tuesday June 21st 2022
Helen Hodgman
Australian novelistDied on Tuesday June 21st 2022
Peter Scupham
British poetDied on Monday June 20th 2022
Simon Perchik
American poetDied on Sunday June 19th 2022
Patrick Breuzé
French journalist and writerDied on Friday June 17th 2022
Shauneille Perry
American stage director and playwrightDied on Thursday June 16th 2022
Zinovy Roizman
Russian film and animation director and screenwriter (Empire Under Attack)Died on Thursday June 16th 2022
Gopi Chand Narang
Indian literary criticDied on Wednesday June 15th 2022
Joyce Burditt
American television writer (Diagnosis MurderDied on Wednesday June 15th 2022
Joel Whitburn
American author and music historianDied on Tuesday June 14th 2022
Valeriu Râpeanu
Romanian literary criticDied on Tuesday June 14th 2022
A. B. Yehoshua
Israeli writerDied on Tuesday June 14th 2022
Baxter Black
American cowboy poet and veterinarianDied on Sunday June 12th 2022
Birkha Bahadur Muringla
Indian writerDied on Thursday June 9th 2022
Erasmus Schöfer
German writerDied on Wednesday June 8th 2022
Thubten Samphel
Tibetan writer and government officialDied on Tuesday June 7th 2022
Zinoviy Royzman
Russian film and animation director and screenwriterDied on Monday June 6th 2022
Aziz Gardi
Kurdish writer and translatorDied on Monday June 6th 2022
George Lamming
Barbadian novelist and poetDied on Sunday June 5th 2022
György Moldova
Hungarian writerDied on Saturday June 4th 2022
Luis Monje Ciruelo
Spanish journalist and writerDied on Saturday June 4th 2022
Ann Turner Cook
American author and model (Gerber Baby)Died on Saturday June 4th 2022
Liliana de Curtis
Italian actress (Orient Express) and writerDied on Friday June 3rd 2022
Na Yeon-suk
South Korean screenwriterDied on Friday June 3rd 2022
Joseph Zoderer
German-speaking Italian writerDied on Wednesday June 1st 2022
Friedrich Christian Delius
German writerDied on Tuesday May 31st 2022
Donald Kemp Ross
American public interest lawyer and authorDied on Monday May 30th 2022
Boris Pahor
Slovenian writerDied on Monday May 30th 2022
Laimonas Tapinas
Lithuanian writerDied on Sunday May 29th 2022
Rajat Kumar Kar
Indian playwrightDied on Friday May 27th 2022
Claude Michelet
French writerDied on Friday May 27th 2022
Lívia Gyarmathy
Hungarian film director and screenwriterDied on Thursday May 26th 2022
Teodor Kukuruza
Ukrainian poetDied on Thursday May 26th 2022
Eduardo Lizalde
Mexican poetDied on Wednesday May 25th 2022
Maja Lidia Kossakowska
Polish fantasy writerDied on Monday May 23rd 2022
Miro Silvera
Italian writerDied on Monday May 23rd 2022
Jaakko Syrjä
Finnish authorDied on Sunday May 22nd 2022
Donald K. Ross
American public interest lawyer and authorDied on Friday May 20th 2022
Griselda El Tayib
British-born Sudanese writer and cultural anthropologistDied on Friday May 20th 2022
Yaakov Sharett
Israeli authorDied on Friday May 20th 2022
Jean-Louis Comolli
French film critic (Cahiers du Cinéma) and directorDied on Thursday May 19th 2022
Oleksandr Smyk
Ukrainian singer-songwriter and poetDied on Thursday May 19th 2022
Olexandr Smik
Ukrainian singer-songwriter and poetDied on Thursday May 19th 2022
Jim Murphy
American authorDied on Thursday May 19th 2022
Domingo Villar
Spanish writer (Death on a Galician Shore)Died on Wednesday May 18th 2022
Norberto Ávila
Portugal playwrightDied on Wednesday May 18th 2022
Christian Giudicelli
French novelist and literary criticDied on Tuesday May 17th 2022
Kay Mellor
British actress and writer (Children's WardDied on Tuesday May 17th 2022
François Blais
Canadian writerDied on Monday May 16th 2022
Anne de Leseleuc
French writerDied on Saturday May 14th 2022
Alexei Tsvetkov
Russian poetDied on Thursday May 12th 2022
Jeroen Brouwers
Dutch writerDied on Wednesday May 11th 2022
Katsumoto Saotome
Japanese authorDied on Wednesday May 11th 2022
Patricia A. McKillip
American author (The Forgotten Beasts of EldDied on Wednesday May 11th 2022
Víctor Chamorro
Spanish writerDied on Tuesday May 10th 2022
Midge Decter
American non-fiction writerDied on Monday May 9th 2022
John R. Cherry III
American film director and screenwriter (Ernest Saves ChristmasDied on Sunday May 8th 2022
Mykola Adamenko
Ukrainian poetDied on Sunday May 8th 2022
George Pérez
American comic book artist and writerDied on Saturday May 7th 2022
Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and authorDied on Saturday May 7th 2022
Serhiy Dyachenko
Ukrainian writer and screenwriter (Dark Planet)Died on Friday May 6th 2022
Sergey Dyachenko
Ukrainian writer and screenwriter (Dark Planet)Died on Friday May 6th 2022