Maung Wuntha
Burmese writer and activist
Died on Sunday August 11th 2013
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Chen Liting
Chinese playwright and film director
Died on Tuesday August 27th 2013
William Froug
American Emmy Award-winning television writer
Died on Sunday August 25th 2013
Amy Wallace
American writer
Died on Saturday August 10th 2013
Ciril Bergles
Slovene poet
Died on Sunday August 25th 2013
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Portuguese academic and author
Died on Friday August 9th 2013
John Rankine
British science fiction author
Died on Thursday August 8th 2013
Ewa Petelska
Polish film director (Copernicus) and screenwriter
Died on Tuesday August 20th 2013
Barbara Mertz
American mystery writer (The Last Camel Died at Noon)
Died on Thursday August 8th 2013
Elmore Leonard
American author (Get Shorty
Died on Tuesday August 20th 2013
John Kingsmill
Australian author
Died on Tuesday August 6th 2013
Dagon Taya
Burmese author and peace activist
Died on Monday August 19th 2013
Sherko Bekas
Iraqi Kurdish poet
Died on Sunday August 4th 2013
Mirko Kovač
Montenegrin writer
Died on Monday August 19th 2013
Iryna Zhylenko
Ukrainian poet
Died on Saturday August 3rd 2013
Albert Murray
American literary and jazz critic
Died on Sunday August 18th 2013
Patricia Anthony
American science fiction author
Died on Friday August 2nd 2013
Jon Manchip White
Welsh–born American novellist and screenwriter
Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Snoo Wilson
English playwright and screenwriter
Died on Wednesday July 3rd 2013
Jean Madiran
French nationalist writer
Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey
British nobleman and author
Died on Saturday July 13th 2013
Ryan Davis
American video game journalist and critic (GameSpot)
Died on Wednesday July 3rd 2013
John Graves
American author (Goodbye to a River)
Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Takako Takahashi
Japanese novelist and French language translator
Died on Friday July 12th 2013
Francis Ray
American author
Died on Tuesday July 2nd 2013
Gokulananda Mahapatra
Indian science fiction and children's author
Died on Wednesday July 10th 2013
Jūgatsu Toi
Japanese travel writer
Died on Sunday July 28th 2013
Lafif Lakhdar
Tunisian writer and journalist
Died on Friday July 26th 2013
Gaétan Soucy
Canadian novelist
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Leighton Gage
American crime author
Died on Friday July 26th 2013
Barbara Robinson
American children's author (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever)
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Marco Antonio Flores
Guatemalan author
Died on Friday July 26th 2013
Željko Malnar
Croatian writer and documentarist
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Ryuchi Matsuda
Japanese martial arts writer
Died on Wednesday July 24th 2013
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
Russian historian and writer
Died on Tuesday July 9th 2013
Sundri Uttamchandani
Indian writer
Died on Monday July 8th 2013
Ugo Riccarelli
Italian novelist
Died on Sunday July 21st 2013
Edmund Morgan
American historian and author
Died on Monday July 8th 2013
Denys de La Patellière
French film director (Marco the Magnificent) and novelist
Died on Sunday July 21st 2013
Helen Thomas
American journalist and author
Died on Saturday July 20th 2013
Alice Masak French
Canadian Inuvialuit author
Died on Friday July 5th 2013
Vincenzo Cerami
Italian screenwriter (Life Is Beautiful)
Died on Wednesday July 17th 2013
Michael Baigent
New Zealand author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail)
Died on Monday June 17th 2013
Nada Inada
Japanese psychiatrist and writer
Died on Thursday June 6th 2013
Bernard Sahlins
American comedy writer and theater owner
Died on Sunday June 16th 2013
Kampta Karran
Guyanan sociologist and author
Died on Wednesday June 5th 2013
Maurice Nadeau
French writer and editor
Died on Sunday June 16th 2013
Bruce Cathie
New Zealand UFO author and theorist
Died on Sunday June 2nd 2013
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer
Died on Saturday June 29th 2013
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain
Bangladesh poet and academic
Died on Sunday June 16th 2013
Atle Kittang
Norwegian literary researcher and critic
Died on Saturday June 1st 2013
Charlie L. Russell
American playwright (Five on the Black Hand Side)
Died on Friday June 28th 2013
Peride Celal
Turkish author
Died on Saturday June 15th 2013
Bill Gunston
British aviation writer
Died on Saturday June 1st 2013
F.D. Reeve
American academic and author
Died on Friday June 28th 2013
Olwen Wymark
American–born British dramatist
Died on Friday June 14th 2013
Oliver Bernard
English poet and translator
Died on Saturday June 1st 2013
Elroy Schwartz
American television writer (Gilligan's Island
Died on Friday June 14th 2013
Richard Matheson
American author and screenwriter (I Am Legend
Died on Sunday June 23rd 2013
Jaakko Wallenius
Finnish writer and journalist
Died on Tuesday June 11th 2013
Javier Tomeo
Spanish writer
Died on Saturday June 22nd 2013
Ralph Graves
American writer
Died on Monday June 10th 2013
Deric Longden
British author and screenwriter
Died on Saturday June 22nd 2013
Zdeněk Rotrekl
Czech poet
Died on Sunday June 9th 2013
Gary David Goldberg
American TV writer (Family Ties
Died on Saturday June 22nd 2013
Walter Jens
German writer and intellectual
Died on Sunday June 9th 2013
Dicky Rutnagur
Indian cricket journalist and author
Died on Thursday June 20th 2013
Iain Banks
Scottish author (The Wasp Factory)
Died on Sunday June 9th 2013
Alexandru Mușina
Romanian poet
Died on Wednesday June 19th 2013
Yoram Kaniuk
Israeli writer
Died on Saturday June 8th 2013
Parke Godwin
American author
Died on Wednesday June 19th 2013
Vince Flynn
American author (Mitch Rapp)
Died on Wednesday June 19th 2013
Atiqul Haque Chowdhury
Bangladeshi playwright and TV producer
Died on Monday June 17th 2013
Tom Sharpe
British author (Porterhouse Blue
Died on Thursday June 6th 2013
Herbert Romerstein
American anti–communist writer
Died on Tuesday May 7th 2013
William Demby
American writer
Died on Thursday May 23rd 2013
Greg Quill
Australian roots musician and entertainment critic (Toronto Star)
Died on Sunday May 5th 2013
Elizabeth Mavor
British writer
Died on Wednesday May 22nd 2013
Sarah Kirsch
German poet
Died on Sunday May 5th 2013
William Douglas Lansford
American writer
Died on Wednesday May 22nd 2013
Jürg Amann
Swiss author and dramatist
Died on Sunday May 5th 2013
Charley Reese
American newspaper columnist
Died on Tuesday May 21st 2013
Selma Urfer
Swiss author and actress
Died on Thursday May 2nd 2013