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[edit] Awards and honors

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - Kate Christensen, The Great Man
Canada Reads - Paul Quarrington, King Leary
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January

Margaret Truman

January 2 - George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British author (Flashman)
January 3 - Henri Chopin, 85, French poet
January 11 - Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer
January 13 - Patricia Verdugo, 60, Chilean journalist and writer
January 16 - Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand poet
January 17 - Edward D. Hoch, 77, American pulp writer
January 26 - John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and writer
January 26 - Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor
January 29 - Margaret Truman, 83, American writer
January 30 - Miles Kington, 66, British journalist and writer

[edit] February

Steve Gerber

February 4 - Rose Hacker, 101, British writer and journalist
February 7 - Richard Altick, 92, American literary scholar
February 8 - Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery writer
February 10 - Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer (Howard the Duck)
February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French novelist
February 21 - Archie Hind, 80, British novelist
February 21 - Robin Moore, 82, American writer
February 22 - Stephen Marlowe, 79, American sci-fi and crime writer
February 28 - Suzanne Goodwin, 91, British novelist
February 28 - Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist
c. February 28 - Val Plumwood, 68, Australian philosopher

[edit] March

Arthur C. Clarke

March 3 - Maria Gabriela Llansol, 76, Portuguese writer
March 16 - Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet
March 19 - Arthur C. Clarke, 90, British science-fiction writer and futurist
March 19 - Hugo Claus, 78, Belgian writer
March 23 - E. A. Markham, 68, Montserratian poet

[edit] April

Ludu Daw Amar

April 1 - Arturo Vivante, 84, Italian novelist
April 3 - Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet and editor
April 7 - Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese writer and journalist
April 13 - Robert Greacen, 87, Irish poet
April 17 - Aimé Césaire, 94, French-Martinican poet
April 17 - Zoya Krakhmalnikova, 79, Russian writer and editor
April 18 - Michael de Larrabeiti, 63, British novelist
April 18 - William W. Warner, 88, American biologist and Pulitzer Prize winning writer

[edit] May

May 1 - Elaine Dundy, 86, American novelist
May 9 - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish Journalist, novelist and critic
May 11 - Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist
May 12 - Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist
May 14 - Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese novelist
May 19 - Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright
May 23 - Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and novelist
May 28 - Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer

[edit] June

Chinghiz Aitmatov

June 2 - Ferenc Fejtő, 98, French-Hungarian historian and journalist
June 4 - Matthew Bruccoli, 76, American biographer and editor
June 5 - Angus Calder, 65, British writer and editor
June 8 - Peter Rühmkorf, 78, German poet
June 9 - Algis Budrys, 77, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer and editor
June 10 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, 79, Kyrgyz writer
June 10 - Eliot Asinof, 88, American sportswriter
June 16 - Mario Rigoni Stern, 86, Italian novelist
June 18 - Tasha Tudor, 92, American children's writer and illustrator
June 22 - Albert Cossery, 94, French-Egyptian novelist
June 24 - Ruth Cardoso, 77, Brazilian anthropologist and writer
June 25 - Lyall Watson, 69, South African new age writer
June 27 - Lenka Reinerová, 92, Czech writer

[edit] July

Thomas M. Disch

July 1 - Clay Felker, 82, American magazine editor and journalist, founder of New York
July 1 - Robert Harling, 98, British typographer, editor and novelist
July 2 - Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish cookery writer
July 4 - Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author and poet.
July 4 - Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch novelist
July 27 - Bob Crampsey, 78, British writer
July 30 - Peter Coke, 95, British playwright

[edit] August

August 3 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
August 7 - Simon Gray, 71, British playwright
August 9 - Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet
August 11 - George Furth, 75, American playwright
August 17 - Dave Freeman, 47, American travel writer
August 23 - John Russell, 89, British-American art critic
August 25 - Ahmed Faraz, 77, Pakistani poet
August 31 - Ken Campbell, 66, British novelist and playwright

[edit] September

September 5 - Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher
September 7 - Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American mystery writer
September 12 - David Foster Wallace, 46, American novelist
September 17 - James Crumley, 68, American crime writer
September 23 - William Woodruff, 92, British historian and autobiographer

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