Remembering Dead Writers

[Ben Jackson]

Reminiscing the writers we lost this year, here are some famous names we lost:

?? Javier Marias
?? Nelida Pinon
?? Hans Magnus Enzensberger
?? Gerald Stern
??????? Hilary Mantel
?? Saul Kripke
?? A B Yehoshua
?? Richard Howard
?? Xi Xi

Which of this writers did you surely miss so much?

 

[SpaceCadet]

Lygia Fagundes Telles will be remember with much fondness.

 

[Leseratte]

Reminiscing the writers we lost this year, here are some famous names we lost:

?? Javier Marias
?? Nelida Pinon
?? Hans Magnus Enzensberger
?? Gerald Stern
??????? Hilary Mantel
?? Saul Kripke
?? A B Yehoshua
?? Richard Howard
?? Xi Xi

Which of this writers did you surely miss so much?

From these I´ve read only Marias and Enzensberger. The last one is the one I am going to miss.

 

[kpjayan]

Ben, Did you inspire the Aussies in some way ?

Great writers we lost last year

Jane Sullivan laments the deaths of some of her favourite authors.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Ben Jackson]

Ben, Did you inspire the Aussies in some way ?

Great writers we lost last year

Jane Sullivan laments the deaths of some of her favourite authors.

www.smh.com.au

Um...well...wow, I didn't know I was that powerful?

 

[Ben Jackson]

Reminiscing the writers we lost in the year 2023 (I ought to have titled this thread "Remembering Dead Writers Thread"), here are some writers that died this year:

?? Milan Kundera
?? Kenzaburo Oe
??????? A S Byatt
?? Louise Gluck
?? Dubravka Ugresic
?? Cormac McCarthy
??????? Martin Amis
?? Ama Ataa Aidoo
?? Charles Simic
?? Russell Banks
?? Martin Walser
David Albahari
Henri Lopes

Edit: I'm not too sure I know where these writers are from, so no flag shown.

Which writer/writers that died this year did you miss the most?

As for me, it's Oe, Ugresic and Kundera.

 

[kpjayan]

Which writer/writers that died this year did you miss the most?

Edith Grossman, most probably !

 

[Verkhovensky]

I'm not too sure I know where these writers are from, so no flag shown.

Albahari lived for some time in Canada, but he was (Sephardic Jew) from Serbia and wrote in Serbian. He died after a long battle with Parkinson's disese as I've read.

If someone is interested in the causes of death, Ugrešić died of euthanasia while suffering from terminal cancer.