Literature
Novelists, poets and journalists, remembered by their readers. 113 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Tim Jeal1945 – 2026 · Biographer and novelistThe biographer who found the men behind the Victorian legends of Livingstone and Stanley.
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Pierre Hazette1939 – 2026 · Politician and writerTeacher of Latin who became Belgium's champion of the school, in parliament and in government.
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Tom Kelly1927 – 2026 · Writer and foresterThe forester and colonel whose Tenth Legion became the bible of turkey hunting.
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Jan Jarboe Russell1951 – 2026 · JournalistTexas journalist and author who brought forgotten chapters of American history to light.
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Standley Goodwin1938 – 2026 · EngineerHe read Old Burial Hill stone by stone, so Marblehead would not forget it.
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Peter Prince1942 – 2026 · Novelist and screenwriterNovelist and screenwriter of Oppenheimer and The Hit, with a keen eye for misfits and an unerring ear for dialogue.
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Carolyn Osborn1934 – 2026 · Writer / short-story author / novelist / journalist / English instructorTexas short-story master, teacher, and Lon Tinkle honoree who helped inspire the Texas Book Festival.
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Len Deighton1929 – 2026 · British novelistWorking-class spy novelist who cooked, researched and rewrote Cold War fiction without Bond's glitter.
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Mujahit Akhmetzyanov1950 – 2026 · Children's poet and teacherTatar children's poet and village schoolmaster who wrote for the young all his life.
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Rita Vorperian† 2026 · ScholarA scholar of the Armenian word and a servant of her community, in Los Angeles and far beyond.
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Mark Pryor1967 – 2026 · Mystery novelist and criminal lawyer (former Travis County prosecutor)Prosecutor, defence lawyer and storyteller who walked Paris with Hugo Marston and asked us to love our local bookstores.
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Bisera Alikadić1939 – 2026 · PoetSarajevo's poet of love, freedom and childhood, who gave her besieged city the City of Courage.
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Cheikh Hamidou Kane1928 – 2026 · PoliticianAuthor of L'Aventure ambiguë; Senegalese writer and minister
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Vladimir Khanan1945 – 2026 · PoetPetersburg underground poet who rebuilt a free literary life in Jerusalem.
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Jean Burrell Russo1941 – 2026 · HistorianHistorian who brought the working people of colonial Annapolis back into its story.
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Terry Denton1950 – 2026 · Children's illustrator and authorAustralian children's illustrator and author, co-creator of the Treehouse series with Andy Griffiths
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P. C. Vey1955 – 2026 · CartoonistNew Yorker cartoonist who found the absurd turn in everyday life.
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Raoul Vaneigem1934 – 2026 · WriterSituationist lyricist of everyday revolt whose 1967 Traité helped fire Mai 68.
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Charles Gaines1942 – 2026 · WriterWriter of Pumping Iron, co-inventor of paintball, and a literary outdoorsman who cast curiosity into every water he fished.
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Dan Simmons1948 – 2026 · Novelist and former elementary school teacherTeacher, storyteller and author of Hyperion, who rotated the crops and heard the music.
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Kevin Bleyer† 2026 · WriterEmmy winning Daily Show writer who helped a president, and the world, find the joke.
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Vladlen Dozortsev1939 – 2026 · PoetPoet and playwright of The Last Visitor who voted for Latvia's independence in 1990.
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Dionysis Charitopoulos1947 – 2026 · NovelistThe Piraeus storyteller who gave Aris Velouchiotis his definitive biography.
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Malcolm Edwards1949 – 2026 · EditorThe editor who brought Neuromancer and a generation of science fiction to British readers.
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Andrea Zlatar-Violić1961 – 2026 · Literary theoristCroatian literary theorist and Minister of Culture who treated culture as a public good.
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Peter May1951 – 2026 · Crime novelistScottish crime novelist of the Lewis Trilogy, embraced first by France.
6 candles · 1 tributes- CCharles Trueheart1951 – 2026 · Journalist
Journalist, editor and library director who spent a life bridging America and France.
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Monika Helfer1947 – 2026 · WriterA Vorarlberg writer who told the truth about families, with clarity and love.
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Keigo Higashino1958 – 2026 · Mystery novelistHe turned scientific logic and ordinary loyalty into some of Asia's most read mystery novels.
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Shahrnush Parsipur1946 – 2026 · NovelistIranian novelist of Women Without Men who wrote women into freedom and paid with exile.
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Seán de Fréine1927 – 2026 · Scholar and writerHe gave voice to the great silence of a language and spent his life helping it speak again.
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Michel Denni1936 – 2026 · BooksellerParis bookseller who catalogued the treasures of French comics for half a century.
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Coos Huijsen1939 – 2026 · Dutch politicianThe world's first openly gay parliamentarian, who made gay rights a question of human rights.
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Ryū Murakami1952 – 2026 · NovelistHe wrote Japan's darkness without flinching, so that one reader, alone, might feel angry and alive.
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Rudolf Křesťan1943 – 2026 · WriterKing of the Czech feuilleton, who found laughter and poetry in the small things of everyday life.
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Michael Cremo1948 – 2026 · AuthorAuthor of Forbidden Archeology who spent five decades bringing Vedic ideas about human origins into debate with modern science.
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C. A. Yothilingam (C A Yogalingam)† 2026 · Political analystHe explained Tamil politics to the people it touched, and never changed his ground.
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Janine Boissard1932 – 2026 · French novelist and screenwriterFrench novelist of L'Esprit de famille and more than fifty beloved popular novels.
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Vedrana Rudan1949 – 2026 · Croatian journalistShe left for an area with no reception, and left seventeen books behind.
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Helmut Lethen1939 – 2026 · Literary and cultural scholarA scholar who traced the culture of coldness in Weimar Germany and wrote with warmth.
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Vicente Quirarte1954 – 2026 · PoetA poet of Mexico City's streets who spent his life teaching others to read them.
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Cees Nooteboom1933 – 2026 · NovelistDutch novelist, poet and traveller whose books carried readers across Europe and the world.
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Erich von Däniken1935 – 2026 · Author and ancient astronaut theoristHe asked millions of people to look at the ancient world and wonder who else might once have been here.
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René Belletto1945 – 2026 · NovelistLyon's master of noir and the fantastic, who found music, fear and poetry in the same dark streets.
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Joachim Lottmann1956 – 2026 · Novelist and journalistThe self-declared inventor of German pop literature, who turned his life, and finally his own dying, into literature.
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Barbara Gawryluk1957 – 2026 · Children's authorKraków radio voice and children's author who gave young Polish readers Dżok and the best of Swedish stories.
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Senji Kuroi1932 – 2026 · Novelist and essayistHe found the drama of the inner life in offices, families and quiet suburban streets.
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Constantin Dram1958 – 2026 · Literary criticA demanding voice and a warm teacher, who served Romanian literature with discretion and passion.
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