Authors, Poets, and Playwrights Lost in 2011

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):

January

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