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Jacques Dupin
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Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin
🇫🇷 France
1927 – 2012 (85 years old)

Distinguished French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the review L'Éphémère who directed the Galerie Maeght and served as the definitive biographer of Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró.

Paris, France
Eric Hobsbawm
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Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm
🇪🇬 Egypt
1917 – 2012 (95 years old)

Preeminent British Marxist historian whose monumental four-volume history of the modern world (The Age of Revolution, Capital, Empire, and Extremes) shaped historical understanding globally.

London, United Kingdom
Robert Hughes
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Robert Hughes

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes
🇦🇺 Australia
1938 – 2012 (74 years old)

Australian art critic and author who served as Time magazine's chief art critic for three decades, celebrated for his landmark BBC television history of modern art The Shock of the New.

New York City, United States
John Keegan
Literature & Poetry
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John Keegan

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1934 – 2012 (77 years old)

Preeminent British military historian whose 1976 classic The Face of Battle transformed military historiography by examining combat through the visceral sensory experience of the frontline soldier.

Kilmington, United Kingdom
Gore Vidal
Literature & Poetry
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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
🇺🇸 United States
1925 – 2012 (86 years old)

Iconic American novelist, essayist, and razor-witted public intellectual whose historical novels (Lincoln, Burr) and piercing political critiques dissected the American empire.

Washington, D.C., United States
Maeve Binchy
Literature & Poetry
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Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy Snell
🇮🇪 Ireland
1939 – 2012 (73 years old)

Warm and beloved Irish novelist, journalist, and columnist whose compassionate portrayals of rural and small-town Irish life in Circle of Friends and Tara Road sold over 40 million books worldwide.

Dublin, Ireland
Stephen Covey
Literature & Poetry
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Stephen Covey

Stephen Richards Covey
🇺🇸 United States
1932 – 2012 (79 years old)

Influential American educator and management consultant whose 1989 self-mastery book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People sold over 40 million copies in forty languages.

Sandy, United States
Ray Bradbury
Literature & Poetry
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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury
🇺🇸 United States
1920 – 2012 (91 years old)

One of America's most celebrated 20th-century authors, whose dystopian masterpiece Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man brought science fiction into the literary mainstream.

Los Angeles, United States
Ibrahim Aslan
Literature & Poetry
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Ibrahim Aslan

إبراهيم أصلان
🇪🇬 Egypt
1935 – 2012 (76 years old)

Celebrated Egyptian author and leading figure of the 'Generation of the Sixties', whose novel The Heron (Malik al-Hazin) depicted working-class Cairo and was adapted into the classic film Kit Kat.

Giza, Egypt
Christa Wolf
Literature & Poetry
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Christa Wolf

Christa Ihlenfeld
🇩🇪 Germany
1929 – 2011 (82 years old)

The preeminent author of East Germany whose complex psychological novels Cassandra, They Divided the Sky, and Patterns of Childhood critically examined socialist ideals, memory, and totalitarian power.

Berlin, Germany
Norman Corwin
Literature & Poetry
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Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin
🇺🇸 United States
1910 – 2011 (101 years old)

Revered American writer, director, and producer during the Golden Age of Radio whose patriotic broadcast On a Note of Triumph celebrated the end of World War II in Europe before 60 million listeners.

Los Angeles, United States
Literature & Poetry
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Margaret Ogola

Margaret Atieno Ogola
🇰🇪 Kenya
1958-06-12 – 2011-09-21 (53 years old)

Renowned pediatrician and author whose epic 1994 debut novel 'The River and the Source' won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.

Nairobi, Kenya
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Literature & Poetry
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Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1915 – 2011 (96 years old)

Renowned British travel writer and World War II hero who walked across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933 and abducted German General Kreipe in Nazi-occupied Crete.

Dumbleton, United Kingdom
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