Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Jorge Velasco Mackenzie
Ecuadorian writer
Died on Friday September 24th 2021
Kjell Askildsen
Norwegian writer
Died on Friday September 24th 2021
Janet Doub Erickson
American graphic artist and writer
Died on Thursday September 23rd 2021
Odile Caradec
French poet
Died on Thursday September 23rd 2021
Ulf Nilsson
Swedish author
Died on Wednesday September 22nd 2021
Tommaso Avagliano
Italian writer and editor
Died on Wednesday September 22nd 2021
Roland Jaccard
Swiss writer
Died on Tuesday September 21st 2021
Richard Buckley
American journalist and writer
Died on Tuesday September 21st 2021
Rafael Niyazbekov
Kazakh poet and writer
Died on Tuesday September 21st 2021
Sabina Zimering
Polish-American ophthalmologist and memoirist
Died on Monday September 20th 2021
Françoise Bernard
French gastronomic author and TV presenter
Died on Monday September 20th 2021
Aquilino Duque
Spanish poet and writer (National Literature Prize for Narrative)
Died on Saturday September 18th 2021
Mario Camus
Spanish film director and screenwriter (La colmena
Died on Saturday September 18th 2021
Arnaldo Di Benedetto
Italian academic and literary critic
Died on Saturday September 18th 2021
Alfonso Sastre
Spanish playwright
Died on Friday September 17th 2021
Tim Thorne
Australian poet
Died on Friday September 17th 2021
James Snyder Jr.
American author
Died on Thursday September 16th 2021
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Belgian-born American playwright (America Hurrah)
Died on Thursday September 16th 2021
Philippe Adrien
French actor (Green Harvest) and playwright
Died on Thursday September 16th 2021
Dave Jenks
American author and real estate mogul
Died on Wednesday September 15th 2021
Zaitoon Bano
Pakistani feminist writer
Died on Wednesday September 15th 2021
Antonio Martínez Sarrión
Spanish poet and translator
Died on Tuesday September 14th 2021
Thommayanti
Thai novelist
Died on Monday September 13th 2021
Antonio Caballero Holguín
Colombian writer and cartoonist
Died on Sunday September 12th 2021
José Verón Gormaz
Spanish poet
Died on Sunday September 12th 2021
Jaime Jaramillo Escobar
Colombian poet and essayist
Died on Sunday September 12th 2021
Aziz Hajini
Indian poet and writer
Died on Sunday September 12th 2021
Jan-Erik Kjellberg
Swedish engineer and writer
Died on Friday September 10th 2021
Carlos Thorne
Peruvian novelist and lawyer
Died on Thursday September 9th 2021
Igor Shklerevskiy
Russian poet and translator
Died on Thursday September 9th 2021
Guido Lanfranco
Maltese writer on natural history and folklore
Died on Wednesday September 8th 2021
Lydia Wevers
Dutch-born New Zealand literary critic
Died on Wednesday September 8th 2021
Irma Kalish
American television writer and producer (Good Times
Died on Monday September 6th 2021
Alain Boudet
French poet
Died on Sunday September 5th 2021
Michel Steiner
French writer and psychoanalyst
Died on Sunday September 5th 2021
Isabel da Nóbrega
Portuguese writer
Died on Thursday September 2nd 2021
L. Neil Smith
American science fiction author
Died on Thursday September 2nd 2021
Daniele Del Giudice
Italian author and lecturer
Died on Thursday September 2nd 2021
William Clotworthy
American television censor (Saturday Night Live) and writer
Died on Wednesday September 1st 2021
Catherine MacPhail
Scottish-born author
Died on Wednesday September 1st 2021
Giuseppe Marchetti
Italian literary critic and journalist
Died on Tuesday August 31st 2021
Vsevolod Ovchinnikov
Russian journalist and writer-publicist
Died on Monday August 30th 2021
Anand Dev Bhatt
Nepalese writer and politician
Died on Monday August 30th 2021
Buddhadeb Guha
Indian writer
Died on Monday August 30th 2021
Lester Coleman
American author (Trail of the Octopus)
Died on Monday August 30th 2021
Stephen Vizinczey
Hungarian-Canadian author and writer
Died on Sunday August 29th 2021
Bulbul Chowdhury
Bangladeshi writer
Died on Saturday August 28th 2021
Lorris Murail
French author
Died on Thursday August 26th 2021
Ales Razanau
Belorussian poet and translator
Died on Thursday August 26th 2021
Gunilla Bergström
Swedish author.
Died on Thursday August 26th 2021
Max Cryer
New Zealand television host and author
Died on Thursday August 26th 2021
Annette Muller
French writer and Holocaust survivor
Died on Thursday August 26th 2021
Mario Pennacchia
Italian writer
Died on Wednesday August 25th 2021
Frank Soos
American writer
Died on Wednesday August 25th 2021
Grange Calveley
British cartoonist and writer
Died on Tuesday August 24th 2021
Alberto Gualde
Panamanian writer and journalist
Died on Tuesday August 24th 2021
David Roberts
American rock climber and author
Died on Monday August 23rd 2021
Jane Wenham-Jones
British author
Died on Monday August 23rd 2021
Jack Hirschman
American poet and social activist
Died on Monday August 23rd 2021
Budi Darma
Indonesian writer and academic
Died on Saturday August 21st 2021
Jill Murphy
British author (The Worst Witch)
Died on Friday August 20th 2021
Gaia Servadio
Italian writer
Died on Friday August 20th 2021
Raoul Cauvin
Belgian comics writer (Les Tuniques Bleues
Died on Friday August 20th 2021
Maurice Vandeweyer
Belgian writer and mathematician
Died on Friday August 20th 2021
Aldo Rostagno
Italian theater director and writer
Died on Thursday August 19th 2021
Joseph L. Galloway
American newspaper correspondent and columnist
Died on Wednesday August 18th 2021
Evgeny Sveshnikov
Russian chess player and writer
Died on Wednesday August 18th 2021
Faisal Nada
Egyptian screenwriter and playwright
Died on Wednesday August 18th 2021
Hiroshi Sakagami
Japanese author
Died on Tuesday August 17th 2021
Michael M. Thomas
American writer
Died on Sunday August 15th 2021
R. Murray Schafer
Canadian composer and writer
Died on Sunday August 15th 2021
Steve Perrin
American game designer and technical writer and editor
Died on Saturday August 14th 2021
K. Schippers
Dutch poet
Died on Friday August 13th 2021
Abdelhamid Laghouati
Algerian poet
Died on Thursday August 12th 2021
Martin Graff
French writer and cabaretist
Died on Thursday August 12th 2021
Abdelmahid Laghouati
Algerian poet
Died on Wednesday August 11th 2021
Walter Wangerin, Jr.
American author
Died on Wednesday August 11th 2021
Eloise Greenfield
American author
Died on Tuesday August 10th 2021
Jaan Kaplinski
Estonian poet
Died on Monday August 9th 2021
Viktor Likhonosov
Russian writer
Died on Monday August 9th 2021
Elena Vasilevich
Belorussian writer
Died on Sunday August 8th 2021
Akhudiat
Indonesian poet
Died on Saturday August 7th 2021
Stefano Di Marino
Italian writer
Died on Saturday August 7th 2021
Jean “Binta” Breeze
Jamaican dub poet
Died on Thursday August 5th 2021
Noel Guzmán Boffil Rojas
Cuban painter and poet
Died on Thursday August 5th 2021
Karl Heinz Bohrer
German literary scholar and essayist
Died on Thursday August 5th 2021
Andrei Strâmbeanu
Moldovan writer and politician
Died on Thursday August 5th 2021
Padma Sachdev
Indian poet and novelist
Died on Wednesday August 4th 2021
José Ramos Tinhorão
Brazilian music critic and journalist
Died on Tuesday August 3rd 2021
Antonio Pennacchi
Italian writer
Died on Tuesday August 3rd 2021
Rashid Irani
Indian film critic
Died on Tuesday August 3rd 2021
Roger Boore
Welsh writer and publisher
Died on Friday July 30th 2021