Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Victor Marchetti
American CIA agent and author · 01 November 2018 · November 2018 · November 1
María Irene Fornés
Cuban-American playwright (Sarita · 31 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 31 · Fornes · Maria
Dave Duncan
award-winning Scottish-Canadian fantasy and science fiction author. · 31 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 31
John Taylor Gatto
American author and teacher · 30 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 30 · Gatto
Sangharakshita
British Buddhist teacher and writer · 30 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 30
Hideo Osabe
Japanese author · 28 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 28
Ntozake Shange
American playwright (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf) and poet · 27 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 27
Thomas Keating
American Trappist monk and author · 26 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 26
Alojz Rebula
Italain-born Slovenian writer · 24 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 24
Na. Muthuswamy
Indian theatre artist and playwright · 24 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 24
Fang Nanjiang
Chinese novelist and major general of the People's Armed Police · 22 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 22
Abdrahman Asylbek
Kazakh poet · 19 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 19
Milton Gendel
American-Italian photographer and art critic · 13 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 13
Fatos Arapi
Albanian poet and writer · 12 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 12
Hebe Uhart
Argentina writer · 12 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 12
Zíbia Gasparetto
Brazilian spiritualist writer · 11 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 11
Ira Gasman
American theatre writer and lyricist · 10 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 10
Sherhan Murtaza
Kazakhstan writer and translator · 09 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 9
Ray Galton
British radio and television scriptwriter (Galton and Simpson) · 06 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 6
Ian Hutoryanski
Russian correspondent (Radio Mayak) and writer · 06 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 6
Audrey Wells
American film director and screenwriter (Under the Tuscan Sun · 05 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 5
Manuel Ríos Ruiz
Spanish poet and flamencologist · 03 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 3 · Ruiz
Antonina Maari
Lithuanian writer · 03 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 3
Pascale Casanova
Frencj literary critic · 03 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 3
Peter C. Bjarkman
American baseball historian and author · 03 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 3 · Bjarkman
Julio Fausto Aguilera
Guatemalan writer and poet · 01 October 2018 · October 2018 · October 1 · Aguilera
Joe Masteroff
American playwright (Cabaret · 28 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 28
Tamaz Chiladze
Georgian writer and poet · 28 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 28
James Lawton
British sports journalist and biographer · 28 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 28
John Cunliffe
English children's book author · 27 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 27
Ismail Fahd Ismail
Kuwaiti novelist and literary critic · 26 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 26
Herbert Meier
Swiss writer and translator · 26 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 26 · Swiss
Yasuyuki Kunitomo
Japanese manga writer · 22 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 22
Huang Ching-yuen
Chinese children's literature writer · 22 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 22
Lawrence Martin-Bittman
Czech-born American artist and author · 22 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 22 · Czech
Zinaida Mirkina
Russian poet and translator · 21 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 21
Kondapalli Koteswaramma
Indian communist revolutionary and writer · 19 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 19
Denis Norden
English comedy writer and television presenter (It'll be Alright on the Night · 19 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 19
Jean Piat
French actor and writer · 19 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 19 · French
Alan Abel
American prankster and writer · 18 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 18
Stephen Jeffreys
British playwright (The Libertine · 18 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 18
Annette Michelson
American film and art critic · 18 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 18
David Rubadiri
Malawian poet and diplomat · 15 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 15
Roland Duval
French film critic · 15 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 15 · French