maryportfuncity 10,657 Posted August 12, 2016 Author Thomas Steinbeck, son of John Steinbeck, has died aged 72. http://www.wnem.com/story/32739975/john-steinbecks-son-fellow-author-thomas-steinbeck-dies In The Shadow Of The Cypress and The Silver Lotus. Some cruel types used to refer to In the Shadow of the Cypress as In the Shadow of John Steinbeck Fortunately that was so long ago I can't find it online 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted August 13, 2016 Belgian writer Françoise Mallet-Joris is dead at 86. She won Prix Femina in 1958. http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2016/08/13/mort-de-la-romanciere-francoise-mallet-joris_4982359_3246.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted August 24, 2016 French writer Michel Butor is dead at 89. http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2016/08/24/le-romancier-michel-butor-est-mort_4987526_3382.html Very important writer in France. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted September 4, 2016 Maria Isabel Barreno, Portoguese writer and feminist, one of the Three Marias, is dead at 77. http://expresso.sapo.pt/sociedade/2016-09-03-Morreu-Maria-Isabel-Barreno-voz-singular-da-igualdade No notable deaths yesterday and today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 4, 2016 Maria Isabel Barreno, Portoguese writer and feminist, one of the Three Marias, is dead at 77. http://expresso.sapo.pt/sociedade/2016-09-03-Morreu-Maria-Isabel-Barreno-voz-singular-da-igualdade No notable deaths yesterday and today. Not one of the Three Marias! *smfh* Yeah that was meaningful. I'll give $1000 if anyone can name either of the other two Marias, or even the dead one today without looking. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cat O'Falk 3,290 Posted September 4, 2016 Maria Isabel Barreno, Portoguese writer and feminist, one of the Three Marias, is dead at 77. http://expresso.sapo.pt/sociedade/2016-09-03-Morreu-Maria-Isabel-Barreno-voz-singular-da-igualdade No notable deaths yesterday and today. Not one of the Three Marias! *smfh* Yeah that was meaningful. I'll give $1000 if anyone can name either of the other two Marias, or even the dead one today without looking. SC Maria Westside-Story? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted September 5, 2016 Maria Isabel Barreno, Portoguese writer and feminist, one of the Three Marias, is dead at 77. http://expresso.sapo.pt/sociedade/2016-09-03-Morreu-Maria-Isabel-Barreno-voz-singular-da-igualdade No notable deaths yesterday and today. Not one of the Three Marias! *smfh* Yeah that was meaningful. I'll give $1000 if anyone can name either of the other two Marias, or even the dead one today without looking. SC Knowing the cultural movements of 1968 one of them was probably Marijuana. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted September 7, 2016 Anna Dewdney, author of the Llama Llama children's books, dead at 50: http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/anna-dewdney-has-died/124582 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,066 Posted September 8, 2016 Joseph Hone, Irish travel writer and novelist, dies at 79. http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/joseph-hone-accomplished-travel-writer-and-novelist-1.2777393 Author of the Peter Marlow spy books and grandson of W B Yeats' biographer. At the time of posting, not dead according to Wikipedia. Hmmm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hone Edit: now dead according to Wikipedia. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted September 15, 2016 Ermanno Rea, Southern Italian writer from Naples, died on September the 13th aged 89. http://www.corriere.it/cultura/16_settembre_13/morto-ermanno-rea-3d671e2e-7980-11e6-8c12-dd8263fa3b6d.shtml Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GossipGabe 333 Posted September 15, 2016 SÁNDOR CSOÓRI, RENOWNED HUNGARIAN POET AND WRITER, DIES AGED 86 http://hungarytoday.hu/news/sandor-csoori-renowned-hungarian-poet-writer-dies-aged-86-23052 Virtually unknown outside Hungary and mostly known for his politics and an allegedly anti-semitic article (rather than his poems) in his native country, Csoóri was eulogized as "the conscience of our Nation" by the Hungarian government. http://www.kormany.hu/hu/hirek/bucsu-csoori-sandortol (link in Hungarian) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 11, 2016 Donn Fendler, who was lost for nine days on Mount Katahdin in 1939 and told the tale of his journey in the classic book Lost On a Mountain in Maine, has died. Fendler, who spent summers at his camp on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, died Monday, according to an announcement posted on Facebook by his family. He was 90. SC http://www.pressherald.com/2016/10/11/donn-fendler-author-of-classic-lost-on-a-mountain-in-maine-dies-at-90/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted October 12, 2016 Time for a Batman Gambit if you will. I mentioned him last week, but Nabeel Qureshi, who seems a bit religious, to say the least, and wrote a bunch of Christian books, has been diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer and the prognosis is "grim". Just a wee heads up for any passing Daily Mail* obituary writer thinking about their 2017 DDP team. Just think of the headline potential, in a Christian convert from Islam who puts foot in mouth every ten seconds. It's like Joey Feek with evangelism. *This applies to any other qualifying source obit team too, of course. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,588 Posted October 26, 2016 American Science Fiction author Sheri.S.Tepper has died aged 87. I didn't realise she was so old. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,588 Posted October 27, 2016 American Science Fiction author Sheri.S.Tepper has died aged 87. I didn't realise she was so old. Link from Locus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,588 Posted October 31, 2016 Booker Prize Winners Updated for 2016 Winner Booker Prize Winners updated for 2014 & 2015 Winners V S Naipaul (1932)John Berger (1926)David Storey (1933)Salman Rushdie (1947)Thomas Keneally (1935)J M Coetzee (1940)Keri Hume (1947)Penelope Lively (1933)Peter Carey (1943)Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)A S Byatt (1936)Ben Okri (1959)Michael Ondaatje (1943)Roddy Doyle (1958)James Kelman (1946)Pat Barker (1943)Graham Swift (1949)Arundhati Roy (1961)Ian McEwan (1948)Margaret Atwood (1939)Yann Martel (1963)DBC Pierre (1961)Alan Hollinghurst (1954)John Banville (1945)Kiran Desai (1971)Anne Enright (1962)Aravind Adiga (1974)Hilary Mantel (1952)Howard Jacobson (1942)Julian Barnes (1946)Eleanor Catton (1985) Richard Flanagan (1961) Marlon James (1970) Paul Beatty (1962) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,229 Posted November 1, 2016 Natalie Babbit, who's most notable work was Tuck Everlasting, which I definitely enjoyed, has died aged 84. She was recently diagnosed with lung cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/01/tuck-everlasting-author-natalie-babbitt-dies-at-84 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted November 11, 2016 Ilse Aichinger dead at 95. Just waiting for an English langaue obit. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/ilse-aichinger-oesterreichische-schriftstellerin-ist-tot-a-1120937.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted November 11, 2016 Ilse Aichinger dead at 95. Just waiting for an English langaue obit. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/ilse-aichinger-oesterreichische-schriftstellerin-ist-tot-a-1120937.html She's on my "won't die in 2016" list. I was wrong. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted November 14, 2016 Alex Hamilton just before his 86th birthday. Primarily a journalist, but known to a certain generation for his horror stories which showed up in the Pan Horror books and the like in the 60s and 70s. Most memorable, imho, is The Attic Express, about a bullying dad more interested in his model railways than his own son. Naturally, he winds up shrunk down to size, with his son using the model trains to speed towards him. Great stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,155 Posted November 15, 2016 Alex Hamilton just before his 86th birthday. Primarily a journalist, but known to a certain generation for his horror stories which showed up in the Pan Horror books and the like in the 60s and 70s. Most memorable, imho, is The Attic Express, about a bullying dad more interested in his model railways than his own son. Naturally, he winds up shrunk down to size, with his son using the model trains to speed towards him. Great stuff. Ooh, I had a couple of those books when I was a kid. Can't remember how I got hold of them! I must see if I can hunt some copies down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted November 15, 2016 Bruce Sandison , the well known author on angling has died at 78. He was also had a pathological hatred to fish farms, so... http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/fishing/7256749/Angling-has-lost-a-giant-in-Bruce-Sandison.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted November 21, 2016 Diana Athill, 98, on Radio 4 this morning, talking about her move into a care home and condemning Jose Mourinho's second spell as Chelsea's manager! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted November 21, 2016 Irish writer William Trevor is dead at 88. http://www.internazionale.it/notizie/2016/11/21/morto-lo-scrittore-irlandese-william-trevor Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,972 Posted November 21, 2016 Irish writer William Trevor is dead at 88. http://www.internazionale.it/notizie/2016/11/21/morto-lo-scrittore-irlandese-william-trevor http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38055207 BBC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
