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Yamina Mechakra

يمينة مشاطرة

Algeria

1949 – 2013 (64 years old)

Celebrated novelist and child psychiatrist whose 1979 masterwork 'La Grotte éclatée', prefaced by Kateb Yacine, is one of the most powerful poetic novels of the War of Independence.

Algiers, Algeria

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Chinua Achebe

Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe

Nigeria

1930 – 2013 (82 years old)

Revered as the 'Father of Modern African Literature', Nigerian novelist whose groundbreaking Things Fall Apart restored authentic African voice and agency against colonial distortion.

Ogidi (Anambra State), Nigeria

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Toyo Shibata

Japan

c. 1912 – 2013 (101 years old)

Toyo Shibata was a bestselling Japanese poet.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Tokyo, Japan

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Jakob Arjouni

Germany

c. 1965 – 2013 (48 years old)

Jakob Bothe, better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Berlin, Germany

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Tony Conran

Great Britain

c. 1932 – 2013 (81 years old)

Tony Conran was an Anglo-Welsh poet and translator of Welsh poetry. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Kari Jormakka

Switzerland

c. 1960 – 2013 (53 years old)

Kari Juhani Jormakka was a Finnish architect, historian, critic and pedagogue.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Peter Carson

Great Britain

c. 1939 – 2013 (74 years old)

Peter Carson was an English publisher, editor and translator of Russian literature.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Maruša Krese

Switzerland

c. 1948 – 2013 (65 years old)

Maruša Krese was a Slovene poet, writer and journalist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Richard Ben Cramer

United States

c. 1951 – 2013 (62 years old)

Richard Ben Cramer was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Metin Kaçan

Turkey

c. 1962 – 2013 (51 years old)

Metin Kaçan was a Turkish author, who is best known for his novel Ağır Roman, which was translated into German, and a movie, directed by Mustafa Altıoklar (1999), was based on it.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ankara, Turkey

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Sol Yurick

United States

c. 1926 – 2013 (87 years old)

Solomon Yurick was an American novelist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Leung Ping-kwan

Switzerland

c. 1950 – 2013 (63 years old)

Leung Ping-kwan, pen name Yěsī (也斯), was a Hong Kong poet, novelist, essayist, translator, teacher, and scholar who received the Hong Kong Medal of Honour (MH). Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Gwendoline Butler

Great Britain

c. 1923 – 2013 (90 years old)

Gwendoline Williams Butler was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Salik Lucknawi

India

c. 1914 – 2013 (99 years old)

Salik Lucknawi was the nom de plume of Shaukat Riaz Kapoor, an Indian Urdu poet and journalist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

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Pir Gohar

Switzerland

c. 1932 – 2013 (81 years old)

Syed Pir Gohar Ali Shah, also known as Shaer-i-Aman, was a Pakistani poet, songwriter, critic and freedom activist who primarily wrote poems in Pashto language. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Richard A. Long

United States

c. 1928 – 2013 (85 years old)

Richard A. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

United States

c. 1960 – 2013 (53 years old)

Susan Kay Nolen-Hoeksema was an American psychologist and professor at Yale University. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Boris Strugatsky

Борис Натанович Стругацкий

Russia

1933 – 2012 (79 years old)

Russian science fiction author who with his brother Arkady wrote Roadside Picnic (adapted into Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker) and Hard to Be a God, creating timeless allegories of totalitarianism and moral conscience.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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