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.

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  Paul Ferris

  1963 – 2026 · Author

  Glasgow's Wee Man: enforcer turned author who spent his last 25 years proving he had gone straight.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Hilary McPhee

  1941 – 2026 · Publisher

  Publisher who co-founded McPhee Gribble, launched Garner and Cloudstreet, and reshaped Australian letters.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Alfonsas Bukontas

  1941 – 2026 · Poet

  Lithuanian poet and translator who turned Holocaust survival and Samogitian earth into lasting verse.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Alojzy Lysko

  1942 – 2026 · Writer

  Silesian chronicler who gave forgotten fathers a voice and kept Upper Silesia's memory alive.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  K. D. Miller

  1951 – 2026 · Short-story writer

  Canadian short-story writer whose prose glittered like a polished knife edge.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Slavko Pregl

  1945 – 2026 · Writer and publisher

  The Slovene children's writer whose funny, honest stories of city kids became school classics.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  John Rousmaniere

  1944 – 2026 · Author and maritime historian

  A sailor and writer who turned a storm at sea into lessons that saved lives.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jane Yolen

  1939 – 2026 · Author

  Prolific children's and fantasy author of Owl Moon and The Devil's Arithmetic.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Douglas Dunn

  1942 – 2026 · Poet

  Poet of Terry Street and Elegies, who wished his neighbours well and wrote so love would not be forgotten.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ila Arab Mehta

  1938 – 2026 · Gujarati novelist

  Gujarati novelist who gave ordinary women a voice of their own. Live and let live.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jeffrey Archer

  1940 – 2026 · Novelist

  Master storyteller whose life read like one of his novels. Kane and Abel author, MP and peer, married to Mary for 60 years.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sidney Offit

  1928 – 2026 · Author

  Author, teacher and champion of writers, Kurt Vonnegut's best friend and the liberal voice of New York's nightly TV debates.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Paulien Cornelisse

  1976 – 2026 · Writer

  Dutch writer and cabaretier who turned everyday language into a national comic pastime.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Bernard Brizay

  1941 – 2026 · Historian

  French historian who brought China's past to French readers.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Arthur R. Kudart

  1930 – 2026 · Lawyer

  Iowa lawyer and senator who spent a lifetime serving Linn County.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Durga Lal Shrestha

  † 2026 · Nepalese poet and lyricist

  The people's poet, whose simple, singing words carried the Nepal Bhasa language forward.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Vladimír Páral

  1932 – 2026 · Novelist

  The chemist turned novelist who chronicled love and boredom in socialist Czechoslovakia.

  3 candles · 1 tributes