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Peter Bergen – The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
Abhinav Bindra – A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
Mark Bowden – Worm: The First Digital World War
Frank Brady – Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
Michael Bronski – A Queer History of the United States
David Brooks – The Social Animal
Brian Christian – The Most Human Human
Richard Dawkins – The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Joan Didion – Blue Nights
Douglas Edwards – I'm Feeling Lucky
T. J. English – The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge
Ulrich Eberl – Life in 2050
Tina Fey – Bossypants
John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly - Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West [22]
Joshua Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein
James Gleick – The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Brian Greene – The Hidden Reality
Yuval Noah Harari – קיצור תולדות האנושות (Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut , Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind )
Matthew Hollis – Now All Roads Lead to France [23]
Louis Hyman – Debtor Nation
Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz – I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović)[24]
Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow
David King – Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Joshua Knelman – Hot Art [25]
Lawrence M. Krauss – Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science [26]
B. B. Lal – Piecing Together – Memoirs of an Archaeologist
Erik Larson – In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Joseph Lelyveld – Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
Steven Levy – In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Charles C. Mann – 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Rajiv Malhotra – Breaking India
David McCullough – The Greater Journey
Ben Mezrich – Sex on the Moon
Scott Miller – The President and the Assassin
Errol Morris – Believing is Seeing
Grant Morrison – Supergods
Joyce Carol Oates – A Widow's Story
Patton Oswalt – Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland
Dana Priest – Top Secret America
Annie Proulx – Bird Cloud: A Memoir
Janet Reitman – Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Sylvain Tesson – The Consolations of the Forest
Sarah Vowell – Unfamiliar Fishes
Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie – The Declaration of Independents
Daniel Yergin – The Quest
Mitchell Zuckoff – Lost in Shangri-La
January 2 – Robert Trumble , Australian writer (born 1919 )
January 4
January 10 – Joe Gores , American novelist and screenwriter (born 1931 )
January 11 – Marcel Trudel , Canadian historian and author (born 1917 )
January 14 – Sun Axelsson , Swedish novelist (born 1935 )
January 15 – Romulus Linney , American playwright (born 1930 )
January 16 – R. F. Langley , English poet and diarist (born 1938 )
January 17 – Jean Dutourd , French novelist (born 1920 )
January 19 – Wilfrid Sheed , English-born American novelist and essayist (born 1930 )
January 20
January 22 – Park Wan-suh , South Korean novelist (born 1931 )
January 23 – Novica Tadić , Serbian poet (born 1949 )
January 24 – Anna Yablonskaya , Ukrainian playwright and poet (born 1981 )
January 25 – Vincent Cronin , English writer (born 1924 )
January 29
January 30 – Hisaye Yamamoto , Japanese American author (born 1921 )
February 2 – Eric Nicol , Canadian author (born 1919 )
February 3 – Édouard Glissant , Martinique poet and critic writing in French (born 1928 )
February 5
February 9 – David Sánchez Juliao , Colombian author and diplomat (born 1945 )
February 13 – Oakley Hall III , American playwright (born 1950 )
February 15 – Judith Binney , New Zealand author (born 1940 )
February 16
February 17
February 18 – Victor Martinez , US poet and novelist (born 1954 )
February 19 – Max Wilk , American playwright, screenwriter and author (born 1920 )
February 25
February 26 – Arnošt Lustig , Czech author (born 1926 )
February 28 – Netiva Ben-Yehuda , Israeli author (born 1928 )
March 2 – Thor Vilhjálmsson , Icelandic author (born 1925 )
March 3 – May Cutler , Canadian author and publisher (born 1923 )
March 5 – Alberto Granado , Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer (born 1922 )
March 8
March 9 – Doris Burn , American children's author and illustrator (born 1923 )
March 13 – Leo Steinberg , American art historian and critic (born 1920 )
March 14 – Giora Leshem , Israeli poet and publisher (born 1940 )
March 19 – Raymond Garlick , English-born Welsh poet and editor (born 1926 )
March 26 – Diana Wynne Jones , English children's fantasy novelist (born 1934 )[27]
March 27 – H. R. F. Keating , English crime novelist (born 1926 )
April 2 – Paul Violi , American poet (born 1944 )
April 3 – Ulli Beier , German writer, editor and scholar (born 1922 )
April 4 – Craig Thomas , Welsh novelist (born 1942 )
April 6 – Thøger Birkeland , Danish children's writer (born 1922 )
April 10 – Stephen Watson , South African writer and critic in English (born 1954 )
April 12 – Sachin Bhowmick , Indian screenwriter (born 1930 )
April 14
April 16 – William A. Rusher , American columnist and publisher (born 1923 )[28]
April 17 – Bob Block , English comedy writer (born 1921 )[29]
April 19 – Anne Blonstein , English poet (born 1958 )[30]
April 20 – Madelyn Pugh , American screenwriter (born 1921 )[31]
April 21 – W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), Welsh-language poet (born 1916 )[32]
April 25 – Gonzalo Rojas , Chilean poet (born 1917 )[33]
April 29
April 30
May 4 – Frans Sammut , Maltese writer (born 1945 )
May 5 – Arthur Laurents , American playwright, librettist and screenwriter (born 1917 )
May 9 – Newton Thornburg , American novelist (born 1929 )[37]
May 10 – Patrick Galvin , Irish poet and dramatist (born 1927 )
May 11 – Reach Sambath , Cambodian journalist (born 1964 )
May 13
May 14 – Birgitta Trotzig , Swedish novelist and poet (born 1929 )
May 15 – Martin Woodhouse , English novelist, screenwriter and inventor (born 1932 )[39]
May 19 – William Kloefkorn , American poet (born 1932 )[40]
May 21 – Pádraig Kennelly , Irish journalist, publisher and editor (born 1938 )[41]
May 22 – Chidananda Dasgupta , Indian film critic (born 1921 )[42]
May 23 – Roberto Sosa , Honduran poet (heart attack, born 1930 )[ citation needed ]
May 24 – Fănuș Neagu , Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer (cancer, born 1932 )[43] [44]
May 25
May 30 – Marek Siemek , Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy (born 1942 )
June 4 – Curth Flatow , German dramatist and screenwriter (born 1920 )
June 7 – Jorge Semprún , Spanish writer and politician (born 1923 )
June 10 – Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor , English travel writer and novelist, (born 1915 )
June 13 – Burt Styler , American screenwriter (born 1925 )
June 18 – Cheryl B , American poet and spoken word artist (born 1972 )
June 21 – Robert Kroetsch , Canadian novelist and poet (car crash, born 1927 )
June 22 – Zbyněk Zeman , Czech historian (born 1928 )
June 29 – K. D. Sethna , Indian poet, writer and cultural critic (born 1904 )
July 7 – Olav Versto , Norwegian journalist and editor (drowning, born 1950 )[46]
July 3 – Iain Blair (Emma Blair), Scottish romance novelist (born 1942 )
July 11 – Henry Carlisle , American translator, novelist and activist (born 1926 )
July 16 – Geraint Bowen , Welsh poet (born 1915 )
July 18 – Georgess McHargue , American author and poet (born 1941 )
July 20 – Blaize Clement , American mystery writer and psychologist (born 1932 )
July 22 – Ifti Nasim , Pakistani-born American poet and radio host (born 1946 )
July 27 – Agota Kristof , Hungarian novelist writing in French (born 1935 )[47]
July 28 – Ahmed Omaid Khpalwak , Afghan journalist (killed in explosion, born c. 1958)
July 30 – Pêr Denez , French Breton linguist and writer (born 1921 )
July 31 – Eliseo Alberto , Cuban-born Mexican novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1951 )
August 1 – Stan Barstow , English novelist (born 1928 )[48]
August 3
August 10 – Selwyn Griffith , Welsh poet (born 1928 )[51]
August 15 – Michael Legat , English author and publisher (born 1923 )
August 17 – Michel Mohrt , French writer (born 1914 )[52]
August 26 – Susan Fromberg Schaeffer , American novelist (born 1940 )[53]
August 27 – N. F. Simpson , English dramatist (born 1919 )[54]
September 9
September 14 – Frank Parkin , Welsh sociologist and novelist (born 1931 )[57]
September 22
September 23 – José Miguel Varas , Chilean writer (born 1928 )[60]
September 26 – David Zelag Goodman , American screenwriter (born 1930 )[61]
September 27
September 29 – Hella Haasse , Dutch novelist (born 1918 )[64]
October 4 – Vittorio Curtoni , Italian science fiction writer and translator (born 1949 )[65]
October 10 – Uno Röndahl , Swedish writer (born 1924 )
October 11 – Ewald Osers , Czech translator and poet (born 1917 )[66]
October 12 – Lowell H. Harrison , American historian (born 1922 )[67]
October 15 – Earl McRae , Canadian journalist (born 1942 )[68]
October 18
October 19
October 21
October 23
October 24 – Morio Kita (北 杜夫), Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist (born 1927 )[77]
November 3
November 21
November 25 – Leonid Borodin , Russian novelist, journalist and Soviet dissident, (born 1938 )[83] (Russian)
November 26 – Rashid Karim , Bangladeshi novelist (born 1925 )[84]
November 30
December 15 – Christopher Hitchens , English journalist and commentator (esophageal cancer, born 1949 )[87]
December 20 – Barry Reckord , Jamaican playwright (born 1926 )[88]
December 23 – Tripuraneni Maharadhi , Indian screenwriter (born 1930 )[89]
December 27 – Thinley Norbu , Tibetan Buddhist writer and teacher (born 1931 )[90]
December 30 – Eleanor Ross Taylor , American poet (born 1920 )[91]
December 31
Tomas Tranströmer in 2008
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542 .
"Faruk Šehić" . European Union Prize for Literature. Archived from the original on February 9, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2024 .
Hahn 2015, pp. 14-15 and 289
Faculty of Arts, November 7, 2012, Edna Staebler Award ,Wilfrid Laurier University , Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/27/2012
Mihnea-Petre Pârvu, Ionuț Fantaziu, "Ultimul boem al veacului trecut s-a stins", in Evenimentul Zilei , 25 May 2011, pp. 4–5
Alex. Ștefănescu , "La o nouă lectură. Fănuș Neagu", in România Literară , Issue 13/2002, pp. 9–10
"NF Simpson" . The Telegraph . London. August 30, 2011. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2012 .
Faculty of Arts, September 8, 2011, Edna Staebler Award , Wilfrid Laurier University , Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/27/2012