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LiteratureGloria Steinem
1934 – 2026 · Journalist, Writer, Reporter
“The journalist who gave a movement its words, and spent sixty years on the road repeating them.”
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LiteratureGene Shalit
1926 – 2026 · Literary critic, Film critic, Journalist
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LiteratureWendell Berry
1934 – 2026 · Poet, Novelist, Writer
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LiteratureJohan Mijail
1990 – 2026 · Writer; journalist; performer; editor of Catinga Ediciones
“Dominican writer and performer who made Afro-Caribbean dissident bodies speak on the page, the altar, and the stage.”
🕯 50 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1
LiteratureMireille Calle-Gruber
1945 – 2026 · Literary critic, academic, essayist, editor, novelist and exhibition curator
“Critic and professor who kept Claude Simon, Butor and the créatrices vividly alive.”
🕯 65 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 1
LiteratureJeon Gyeong-cheol
1962 – 2026 · Author; former IT CEO (Orum I-Tech); disability-care advocate
“Peter Pan Dad who searched a thousand doors so his son could live with dignity.”
🕯 82 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1
LiteratureBlanche d'Alpuget
1944 – 2026 · Biographer; novelist; essayist; former journalist; refugee advocate
“Australian biographer of Bob Hawke, novelist of power, and the writer who asked to be remembered by one line: love one another.”
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LiteratureTony Harrison
1937 – 2025 · Poet; translator; playwright; librettist; film-poet
“Public poet of Leeds: verse for page, stage and screen.”
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LiteraturePeter Gill
1939 – 2026 · Playwright, theatre director, actor
“Cardiff-born writer and director who made ordinary lives the centre of British theatre.”
🕯 50 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1
LiteratureJoan Didion
1934 – 2021 · Writer, journalist, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, memoirist
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
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LiteratureIván Carvajal
1948 – 2026 · Poet; philosopher; essayist; university professor; magazine editor; newspaper columnist
“El poema se nos impone; no es solo expresión de la subjetividad.”
🕯 50 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 6
LiteratureIskhak Mashbash
1930 – 2026 · Poet; novelist; translator; public intellectual; Writers Union leader; anthem lyricist
“Living voice of his people's literature.”
🕯 66 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 5
LiteratureEdward Field
1924 – 2026 · Poet; novelist; memoirist; anthologist; poetry reader/teacher; documentary narration writer; WWII navigator
“Village poet who stood up, friend, for a century.”
🕯 67 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 3
LiteratureDidier Decoin
1945 – 2026 · Novelist; screenwriter (film and television); journalist; Académie Goncourt member and former president; former SGDL president; SCAM co-founder
“Goncourt storyteller; Cotentin sea; high idea of language.”
🕯 87 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 4
LiteratureJohn Crowley
1942 – 2026 · Novelist (fantasy, SF, historical fiction); short-story writer; essayist; documentary screenwriter; Yale creative writing lecturer; co-founder Straight Ahead Pictures
“Fantasy novelist of Little, Big who blurred dream and history into living story.”
🕯 88 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2
LiteratureJavad Mojabi
1939 – 2026 · Poet; writer (novels, short stories, satire, children's); researcher; painter; literary and art critic; journalist
“Iranian poet, satirist and art critic of Night of the Locust and modern visual arts.”
🕯 58 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 3
LiteratureRachel Blau DuPlessis
1941 – 2026 · Poet; essayist; feminist critic; scholar of modernist and contemporary poetry; professor emerita
“Feminist poet-critic whose life poem Drafts remade the American long poem.”
🕯 91 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 4
LiteraturePeter Nadas
1942 – 2026 · Writer, playwright, essayist, photographer, journalist
“Hungarian novelist of memory and the body; author of A Book of Memories and Parallel Stories.”
🕯 75 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2
LiteratureResil Mojares
1943 – 2026 · Historian; literary critic; essayist; fictionist; cultural historian; Professor Emeritus, University of San Carlos; National Artist of the Philippines for Literature (2018)
“Visayan Titan of Letters who made Cebuano memory a national archive.”
🕯 40 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 4
LiteratureTerry Pratchett
1948 – 2015 · Novelist
“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”
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LiteratureErnest Hemingway
1899 – 1961 · Novelist and journalist
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
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LiteratureGabriel García Márquez
1927 – 2014 · Novelist
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
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LiteratureToni Morrison
1931 – 2019 · Novelist
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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LiteratureMaya Angelou
1928 – 2014 · Poet and memoirist
“Still I rise.”
🕯 152 · ✍️ 13 · 📷 5
LiteratureJane Austen
1775 – 1817 · Novelist
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
🕯 196 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 5
LiteratureCharles Dickens
1812 – 1870 · Novelist
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
🕯 117 · ✍️ 15 · 📷 5
LiteratureWilliam Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Playwright and poet
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
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