As happens every year, 2011 claimed a long list of writers, poets, and playwrights from around the world. Here's the list that I've pulled so far - with just three days to go (the ones in red are simply the ones most readers will be familiar with):
2 Robert Trumble
– Australian writer – 91
3 Eva
Strittmatter – German writer – 80
4 Dick
King-Smith – British author – 88
6 Susana Chavez
– Mexican poet – 36
9 Ruth Cavin –
American writer – 92
11 Marcel Trudel –
Canadian author – 93
15 Romulus Linney –
American playwright – 80
17 M.K. Binodini –
Indian writer 0 88
17 Jean Dutourd –
French author – 91
19 Wilfrid Sheed –
American author – 80
20 F.A. Nettlebeck –
American poet – 60
20 Reynolds Price – American author – 77
22 Park Wan-suh –
South Korean author – 79
23 Novica Tadic –
Yugoslavian poet – 62
24 Anna Yablonskaya
– Ukrainian playwright – 29
25 Vincent Cronin –
British writer – 86
26 R.F. Langley –
British poet – 72
27 Diana Norman –
British author – 77
29 Loreen Rice Lucas
– Canadian author – 96
30 Hisaye Yamamoto –
American author – 89
31 Nikolay Dorizo –
Russian poet – 87
31 Stuart Hood –
Scottish writer – 95
February
2 Eric Nicol –
Canadian writer – 91
5 Brian Jacques
– British author – 71
8 Jorma Ojaharju
– Finnish author – 72
11 Bo Carpelan –
Finnish poet and author – 84
15 Judith Binney –
New Zealand author – 70
16 Hans Joachim
Alpers – German writer – 67
17 James McLure –
American playwright – 59
17 Perry Moore –
American author – 39
19 Max Wilk –
American playwright and author – 90
25 Aminath Faiza –
Maldivian poet and author – 82
25 Manny Fried –
American playwright – 97
28 Netiva Ben-Yehuda
– Israeli author – 82
March
1 Hazel Rowley –
Australian writer - 59
2 John Haines –
American poet – 86
2 Thor
Vihjalmsson – Icelandic author – 85
3 May Cutler –
Canadian author – 87
3 Al Morgan –
American author – 91
12 Olive Dickason –
Canadian author – 91
14 Giora Leshem - Israeli poet – 71
15 Amos Bar –
Israeli author – 79
15 Jean Liedloff –
American writer – 84
24 Lanford Wilson –
American playwright – 73
26 Joe Bageant –
American writer – 64
26 Diana Wynne Jones
– British author – 76
27 H.R.F. Keating –
British writer – 84
April
2 Paul Violi –
American poet – 66
3 Ulli Beier –
German writer – 88
3 Marian
Pankowski – Polish writer – 91
6 L.J. Davis –
American writer – 70
10 Stephen Watson –
South African writer – 56
14 Arthur Marx (son
of Groucho) – American writer – 89
23 John Sullivan –
British writer – 64
25 Ira Cohen –
American poet – 76
29 Abdul Hameed –
Pakistani writer – 83
30 Ernesto Sabato –
Argentine writer – 99
May
6 Oniroku Dan –
Japanese author – 80
7 Kate Swift –
American writer – 87
7 Doric Wilson –
American playwright – 72
9 Newton
Thornburg – American author – 81
10 Patrick Galvin –
Irish writer – 83
13 Pam Gems –
British playwright – 85
14 Birgitta Trotzig
– Swedish author – 81
15 Martin Woodhouse
– British author – 78
18 Dick Wimmer –
American author – 74
19 William Kloefkorn
– American poet – 78
22 Bob Gould –
Australian bookseller – 74
25 Edwin Honig –
American poet and translator – 91
25 Yannis Varveris –
Greek poet – 56
27 Johanna Fiedler –
American author – 65
June
2 Josephine Hart
– British novelist – 69
3 Harry
Bernstein – American author – 101
4 Lilian Jackson Braun – American author
– 97
4 Andreas P.
Nielsen – Danish author – 58
7 Jorge Semprun
– Spanish writer – 87
10 Patrick Leigh
Fermor – British author – 96
12 Kathryn Tucker
Windham – American author – 93
21 E.M. Broner –
American author – 83
21 Robert Kroetsch –
Canadian novelist – 83
24 Richard Webster –
British writer – 60
26 Simon Heere
Heeresima – Dutch writer – 79
29 K.D. Sethna –
Indian writer – 106
July
3 Ian Blair –
British romance novelist – 69
3 Francis King –
British writer – 88
6 Warren Leslie
– American author – 84
16 Geraint Bowen –
Welsh poet – 95
20 Blaize Clement –
American writer – 78
20 Gloria Sawai –
Canadian writer – 78
27 Hilary Evans –
British author – 82
August
1 Stan Barstow –
English novelist – 83
2 Leslie Esdaile
Banks – American author – 51
3 William
Sleator – American science fiction writer – 66
11 David Holbrook –
English writer – 88
15 Colin Harvey –
British science fiction writer – 50
21 Edith Tiempo –
Filipino author – 92
22 Samuel Menashe –
American poet – 85
25 Ruth Thomas –
British writer - 66
26 Susan Fromberg
Schaeffer – American novelist – 71
September
4 Hugh Fox – American
novelist and poet – 79
6 Michael S. Hart – Project Gutenberg
founder and e-book inventor – 64
9 Khairy Shalaby
– Egyptian writer – 73
14 Frank Parkin –
British author – 80
19 Jo Carson –
American writer – 64
23 Jose Miguel Varas
– Chilean writer – 83
25 Denis Cannan –
British playwright – 92
27 Sara Douglass –
Australian writer – 54
29 Hella Haasse –
Dutch writer – 93
October
1 Ruby Langford Ginibi –
Australian author – 77
2 Taha
Muhammad Ali – Palestinian poet – 80
7 Mildred
Savage – American author – 92
7 Avner
Treinin – Israeli poet – 83
15 Gerald Shapiro –
American writer – 61
18 Paul Everac – Romanian
writer – 87
18 Andrea
Zanzotto – Italian poet – 90
21 Anis Mansour – Egyptian
writer – 86
24 Morio Kita – Japanese
novelist – 84
November
1 Andre
Hodeir – French author – 90
3 H.G.
Francis – German writer – 75
4 Andy Rooney – American writer and
journalist – 92
5 Les
Daniels – American writer – 68
6 Isaac
Chocron – Venezuelan playwright – 81
6 Peretz Kidron – Israeli writer – 78
7 Tomas
Segovia – Mexican poet – 84
7 F. Springer – Dutch writer – 79
9 Shmuel
Ben-Artzi – Israeli writer – 96
10 Barbara
Grier – American publisher – 78
16 Rusian Akhtakhanov – Chechen poet – 58
17 Peter Reading – English
poet – 65
18 Daniel Sada – Mexican
author – 58
19 Michael Hastings – English
playwright – 73
19 Ruth
Stone – American poet – 96
20 Shelagh Delaney – British playwright
– 72
21 Anne McCaffrey – American science fiction writer – 85
24 Helen Forrester –
Canadian writer – 92
25 Leonid Borodin – Russian
novelist – 73
25 Erling
Laegreid – Norwegian author – 72
29 Mamoni Raisom Goswami – Indian
writer – 69
December
1 Christa
Wolf – German writer – 82
2 Christopher
Logue – British poet – 85
2 David Montgomery – American
historian – 84
7 Josip
Barkovic – Croatian writer – 94
8 Gilbert
Adair – Scottish author – 66
10 Jean Baucus – American author – 94
11 Ahmed
Bahgat – Egyptian writer – 79
13 T.J. Bass – Amerian writer – 79
13 Kabir Chowdhury – Bangladeshi writer
– 88
13 Russell Hoban – American writer – 86
15 Christopher
Hitchens – British writer – 62
20 Hana
Andronikova – Czech writer – 44
22 Richard Bessiere –
French author – 88
25 Simms Taback – American
author - 79
