Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Abdelkrim Ghallab

عبد الكريم غلاب

Morocco

1919 – 2017 (97 years old)

Pioneering Moroccan Arabic novelist and journalist, longtime editor-in-chief of the nationalist daily Al-Alam, and author of the classic anti-colonial novel Dafanna al-Madi.

Rabat, Morocco

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Boualem Khalfa

بوعلام خلفة

Algeria

1923 – 2017 (94 years old)

Historic director of the progressive newspaper 'Alger Républicain', resistance militant who survived brutal colonial torture, and poet who spent his life defending free speech.

Algiers, Algeria

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Taoufik Baccar

توفيق بكار

Tunisia

1927 – 2017 (89 years old)

Pioneering literary critic and professor regarded as the father of modern Tunisian literary criticism, who founded the prestigious 'Uyun' book series that canonized modern Tunisian literature.

La Marsa, Tunisia

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Miriam Tlali

Miriam Tlali

South Africa

1933-11-11 – 2017-02-24 (83 years old)

Courageous author who shattered racial barriers as the first Black South African woman to publish a novel in English ('Muriel at Metropolitan', 1975) and chronicled the 1976 Soweto Uprising.

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Buchi Emecheta

Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta

Nigeria

1944 – 2017 (72 years old)

Nigerian-born British novelist celebrated for The Joys of Motherhood, Second Class Citizen, and The Bride Price, whose fiction dissected the double burdens of colonial racism and patriarchal traditions.

East Finchley (London), United Kingdom

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Emma Tennant

Great Britain

c. 1938 – 2017 (79 years old)

Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Hubert Lucot

France

c. 1936 – 2017 (81 years old)

Hubert Lucot was a French poet and metafiction writer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Paris, France

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Jung Mikyung

South Korea

c. 1961 – 2017 (56 years old)

Jung Mi-Kyung was a modern South Korean novelist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Seoul, South Korea

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Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai

Switzerland

c. 1918 – 2017 (99 years old)

Partaw-i Shah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hubb-i 'Ali Hunzai, known also as 'Allamah Hunzai,, 'Allamah Sahib, or by his epithets, Baba-yi Burushaski, Lisan al-Qawm and Hakim al-Qalam, was a 20th and 21st century theologian, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar, poet and linguist known for his work on Islamic theology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, poetry and the Burushaski language. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Babette Cole

Great Britain

c. 1951 – 2017 (66 years old)

Babette Cole was an English children's writer and illustrator.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Eldar Kuliev

Russia

c. 1952 – 2017 (65 years old)

Eldar Kaisynovich Kuliev was a Russian Soviet film director and screenwriter. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Moscow, Russia

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Claude Lebey

France

c. 1924 – 2017 (93 years old)

Claude Lebey was a French food critic and the author of Guide Lebey.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Paris, France

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Warren Allen Smith

United States

c. 1922 – 2017 (95 years old)

Warren Allen Smith was an American writer, humanist and gay rights activist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Edward Margolies

United States

c. 1926 – 2017 (91 years old)

Edward Margolies was an American literary critic and biographer.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Nat Hentoff

United States

c. 1926 – 2017 (91 years old)

Nathan Irving Hentoff was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Refik Erduran

Turkey

c. 1929 – 2017 (88 years old)

Ahmet Refik Erduran was a Turkish playwright, columnist and writer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ankara, Turkey

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Ricardo Piglia

Argentina

c. 1942 – 2017 (75 years old)

Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Paul Goble

United States

c. 1934 – 2017 (83 years old)

Paul Goble was a British-American writer and illustrator of children's books, especially Native American stories. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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