Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Literature & Poetry

17

🕯️ 0

Michel Jeury

France

c. 1935 – 2015 (80 years old)

Michel Jeury was a French science fiction writer, reputed in the 1970s. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Paris, France

17 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

17

🕯️ 0

Jasodhara Bagchi

India

c. 1938 – 2015 (77 years old)

Jasodhara Bagchi was a leading Indian feminist professor, author, critic and activist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

17 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

17

🕯️ 0

Ganesh Patro

India

c. 1946 – 2015 (69 years old)

Behara Ganesh Patro was an Indian playwright and screenwriter known for his works in Telugu cinema. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

17 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

17

🕯️ 0

Eli Sagan

United States

c. 1928 – 2015 (87 years old)

Eli Sagan was an American businessman who headed one of the nation's largest manufacturers of outerwear for young women, an autodidact in cultural sociology who wrote several widely reviewed books on the subject and a political activist who served on the national finance committee for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, a role that earned him a spot on Richard Nixon's Enemies List in 1973.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished c

Washington, D.C., United States

17 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

15

🕯️ 0

Ives Roqueta

France

c. 1937 – 2015 (78 years old)

Ives Roqueta was an Occitan author. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Paris, France

15 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

16

🕯️ 0

Juan Isidro Moreno

Switzerland

c. 1925 – 2015 (90 years old)

Juan Isidro Moreno Espinal was a poet from the Dominican Republic.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

16 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

15

🕯️ 0

Gene Kemp

Great Britain

c. 1927 – 2015 (88 years old)

Gene Kemp née Rushton was an English author known for children's books. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

15 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

18

🕯️ 0

Al Delugach

United States

c. 1926 – 2015 (89 years old)

Albert Lawrence Delugach was an American journalist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

18 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

13

🕯️ 0

Noel Cobb

United States

c. 1939 – 2015 (76 years old)

Noel Cobb was a philosopher, psychologist and author.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

13 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

17

🕯️ 0

Miller Williams

United States

c. 1931 – 2015 (84 years old)

Stanley Miller Williams was an American contemporary poet, as well as a university professor, translator and editor. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

17 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

13

🕯️ 0

Radwa Ashour

رضوى عاشور

Egypt

May 26, 1946 – November 30, 2014 (68 years old)

Distinguished Egyptian novelist, literary critic, and university professor whose epic masterpiece 'The Granada Trilogy' chronicled the tragic fall of Islamic Spain, celebrated for her profound intellectual courage and championing of human rights.

Cairo, Egypt

13 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

1

🕯️ 0

Said Aql

سعيد عقل

Lebanon

4 July 1912 – 28 November 2014 (102 years old)

Centenarian titan of Lebanese poetry whose sublime linguistic perfection and Phoenician cultural nationalism shaped modern Lebanese literature.

Zahlé, Lebanon

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

1

🕯️ 0

Samih al-Qasim

سميح القاسم

Jordan

11 May 1939 – 19 August 2014 (75 years old)

Formidable Palestinian resistance poet from Rameh who authored seventy books of verse and was repeatedly jailed for refusing military conscription.

Rameh, Palestine

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

1

🕯️ 0

Farley Mowat

Farley McGill Mowat

Canada

1921 – 2014 (92 years old)

Passionate environmentalist and crusading author whose forty-four books, including People of the Deer and Never Cry Wolf, sold twenty-five million copies worldwide and revolutionized wolf conservation.

Port Hope (Ontario), Canada

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

0

🕯️ 0

Alistair MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod

Canada

20 July 1936 – 20 April 2014 (77 years old)

Revered Canadian author whose lyrical fiction, set among Cape Breton coal miners and Gaelic descendants, earned the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Margaree, Canada

0 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

37

🕯️ 999

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Gabo)

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombia

6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014 (87 years old)

Preeminent titan of Latin American magical realism and 1982 Nobel laureate whose monumental epic One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) chronicled the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo and the Buendía dynasty.

Mexico City, Mexico

37 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

1

🕯️ 0

Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant

Canada

11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014 (91 years old)

Internationally revered Canadian master of short fiction whose sharp wit and psychological nuance graced the pages of The New Yorker for half a century.

Paris, France

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

28

🕯️ 0

Jose Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco Berny

Mexico

1939 – 2014 (74 years old)

Mexican poet, novelist, and translator beloved for his coming-of-age novella Battles in the Desert and moral, lucid poetry of time, destruction, and urban change.

Mexico City, Mexico

28 Full Record →