Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Katie Flynn

Great Britain

c. 1937 – 2019 (82 years old)

Judy Turner was an author who wrote under the pen name Katie Flynn and Judith Saxton. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Arto Paasilinna

Arto Tapio Paasilinna

Finland

1942-04-20 – 2018-10-15 (76 years old)

World-famous Finnish satirical novelist whose picaresque ecological fable Jäniksen vuosi (The Year of the Hare) was translated into over forty languages as a global cult classic.

Espoo, Finland

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Hanna Mina

حنا مينه

Syria

9 March 1924 – 21 August 2018 (94 years old)

Celebrated Syrian social realist novelist renowned as the 'novelist of the sea', author of 'The Sail and the Storm'.

Latakia, Syria

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Nancy Richler

Canada

c. 1958 – 2018 (60 years old)

Nancy Richler was a Canadian novelist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ottawa, Canada

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Pablo García Baena

Spain

c. 1922 – 2018 (96 years old)

Pablo García Baena was a Spanish poet. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Madrid, Spain

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Darmanto Jatman

Switzerland

c. 1943 – 2018 (75 years old)

Darmanto Jatman was an Indonesian poet and writer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Yılmaz Onay

Turkey

c. 1938 – 2018 (80 years old)

Yılmaz Onay was a Turkish author, theatre director and translator.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ankara, Turkey

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J. F. C. Harrison

Great Britain

c. 1922 – 2018 (96 years old)

John Fletcher Clews Harrison, usually cited as J. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Markku Into

Switzerland

c. 1946 – 2018 (72 years old)

Markku Into was a Finnish poet and one of the main members in Finnish 1960s underground movement of Turku. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Hans Werner Kettenbach

Germany

c. 1929 – 2018 (89 years old)

Hans Werner Kettenbach was a German journalist and writer.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Berlin, Germany

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Rasa Chughtai

India

c. 1929 – 2018 (89 years old)

Rasa Chughtai was a Pakistani poet in Urdu who was known for his poetry compilations Zanjeer-e-Hamsaigi and Tere Aane Ka Intezaar Raha.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

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Muntazir Baba

Switzerland

c. 1950 – 2018 (68 years old)

Muntazir Baba was a Pushto-language poet. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Switzerland

c. 1924 – 2018 (94 years old)

Ambalavaner Sivanandan, commonly referred to as A. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Alan Sagner

United States

c. 1921 – 2018 (97 years old)

Alan Louis Sagner was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman and philanthropist who served as New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation, as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and as Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Keorapetse Kgositsile

South Africa

c. 1939 – 2018 (79 years old)

Keorapetse William Kgositsile, also known by his pen name Bra Willie, was a South African Tswana poet, journalist and political activist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Pretoria, South Africa

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Philip Eden

Great Britain

c. 1952 – 2018 (66 years old)

Geoffrey Philip Eden was a British weather journalist and weather historian.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Lyndon Wainwright

Great Britain

c. 1920 – 2018 (98 years old)

Lyndon Bentley Wainwright was a British metrologist, ballroom dancer and author. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Miriam Kochan

Great Britain

c. 1930 – 2018 (88 years old)

Miriam Louise Kochan was an English history writer and translator of French. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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