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Pritish Nandy

India

c. 1952 – 2025 (73 years old)

Pritish Nandy was an Indian poet, painter, journalist, politician, media and television personality, animal activist and maker of films, television and streaming content. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

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Selim İleri

Turkey

c. 1950 – 2025 (75 years old)

Ali Selim İleri was a Turkish writer, screenwriter, and film critic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ankara, Turkey

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Lee Hoesung

Japan

c. 1936 – 2025 (89 years old)

Lee Hoesung was a Japanese Zainichi Korean novelist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Tokyo, Japan

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Na D'Souza

India

c. 1938 – 2025 (87 years old)

Norbert D'Souza was an Indian writer in the Kannada language. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

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Richard Foreman

United States

c. 1938 – 2025 (87 years old)

Richard Foreman was an American avant-garde experimental playwright, director, and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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José Claer

Canada

c. 1964 – 2025 (61 years old)

Josué Jude Carrier, better known by his pen name José Claer, was a Canadian poet and author.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ottawa, Canada

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James Arthur Ray

United States

c. 1958 – 2025 (67 years old)

James Arthur Ray was an American self-help businessman, motivational speaker, author and convicted felon who was found guilty in 2011 of causing three deaths through negligent homicide.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Howard Buten

United States

c. 1951 – 2025 (74 years old)

Howard Buten was an American author living in France. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Bertrand Bouvier

Switzerland

c. 1930 – 2025 (95 years old)

Bertrand Bouvier was a Swiss writer and translator who specialized in Modern Greek.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Bern, Switzerland

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Noreen Riols

Great Britain

c. 1927 – 2025 (98 years old)

Noreen Patricia Riols, was a British novelist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Joseph Monninger

United States

c. 1954 – 2025 (71 years old)

Joseph Monninger was an American writer and Professor of English at Plymouth State University. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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David Lodge

Great Britain

c. 1936 – 2025 (89 years old)

David John Lodge was an English novelist and critic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Edna O'Brien

Ireland

1930 – 2024 (93 years old)

Trailblazing Irish author whose revolutionary debut The Country Girls shattered clerical taboos around female sexuality and autonomy in Ireland. Honored with the PEN/Nabokov Award and the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Lough Derg, County Clare, Ireland

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Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare

Albania

1936 – 2024 (88 years old)

Albania's preeminent literary master and dissident intellectual whose parabolic novels, including The General of the Dead Army, The Palace of Dreams, and Broken April, exposed totalitarian control and Balkan folklore.

Tirana, Albania

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Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw)

Canada

1931 – 2024 (92 years old)

Canadian short-story master acclaimed as the "contemporary Chekhov". Recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her penetrating psychological portrayals of rural Ontario and the complexities of human relationships.

Wingham, Canada

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Bernard Pivot

Bernard Pivot

France

1935 – 2024 (89 years old)

Beloved French cultural journalist, television presenter, and president of the Académie Goncourt whose iconic literary talk show Apostrophes made reading and intellectual debate a prime-time national passion for decades.

Quincié-en-Beaujolais, France

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Paul Benjamin Auster

United States

1947 – 2024 (77 years old)

Prolific American author celebrated for his labyrinthine metaphysical detective novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, and 4 3 2 1. Known for intertwining themes of chance, identity, and urban solitude.

New York City, United States

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John Simmons Barth

John Barth

United States

1930 – 2024 (93 years old)

American postmodernist novelist, short story writer, and literary theorist known for metafictional masterworks including The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, and the influential 1967 essay "The Literature of Exhaustion".

Bonita Springs, United States

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