ThePrematureBurial 224 Posted June 13, 2020 Jean Raspail, who wrote the controversial novel "Camp of Saints", about immigration to Europe in 1973, died aged 94 in Paris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Raspail 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted June 14, 2020 Stella Pevsner, a long-time Chicago children's author has died. She was 98. Pevsner authored 18 books total and continued to write into her 90s. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/6/12/21288683/stella-pevsner-childrens-author-books-obituary 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted June 18, 2020 Damn, what's up today? Czech writer Milan Kundera died at 91. His best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Italian source so far: http://www.askanews.it/esteri/2020/06/18/fonti-morto-il-romanziere-milan-kundera-pn_20200618_00136/ Ooooh, maybe fake news? The Czech embass denies his death. http://www.askanews.it/esteri/2020/06/18/ambasciata-ceca-a-parigi-smentisce-morte-kundera-pn_20200618_00172/ Sorry. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,947 Posted June 18, 2020 30 minutes ago, Book said: Damn, what's up today? Czech writer Milan Kundera died at 91. His best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Italian source so far: http://www.askanews.it/esteri/2020/06/18/fonti-morto-il-romanziere-milan-kundera-pn_20200618_00136/ Ooooh, maybe fake news? The Czech embass denies his death. http://www.askanews.it/esteri/2020/06/18/ambasciata-ceca-a-parigi-smentisce-morte-kundera-pn_20200618_00172/ Sorry. Yes, De Benedetti once again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,947 Posted June 19, 2020 Pretty big one: Carlos Ruiz Zafon dead at 54. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,476 Posted June 19, 2020 7 minutes ago, drol said: Pretty big one: Carlos Ruiz Zafon dead at 54. Oh wow, he was a great writer. Sort of the urban fantasy of an Alasdair Gray but with the backdrop of the Spanish Civil and Barcelona history. Covid? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted June 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, drol said: Pretty big one: Carlos Ruiz Zafon dead at 54. I studied his work When I learned spanish, pretty shocked to learn he had cancer, a big one... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted June 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, msc said: Oh wow, he was a great writer. Sort of the urban fantasy of an Alasdair Gray but with the backdrop of the Spanish Civil and Barcelona history. Covid? Colon cancer apparently Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted June 22, 2020 American author of novels such as Love, Roger (1969) and The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1970) Charles Webb died at 81 years: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/22/charles-webb-novelist-found-fame-not-fortune-novel-graduate/ He was best known for his 1963 work, The Graduate, which was adapted into a popular 1967 film. His later novel, New Cardiff, was also turned into the 2003 film, Hope Springs. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted June 24, 2020 French author and academician Marc Fumaroli has died at 88 https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/06/24/l-historien-de-la-litterature-marc-fumaroli-est-mort_6044035_3382.html a personnal miss. There’s a lot of frail academician in France but I didn’t think he was the next to go after Dabadie’s death last month... somehow Rene de Obaldia is still here at 101 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,476 Posted June 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Lafaucheuse said: French author and academician Marc Fumaroli has died at 88 https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/06/24/l-historien-de-la-litterature-marc-fumaroli-est-mort_6044035_3382.html a personnal miss. There’s a lot of frail academician in France but I didn’t think he was the next to go after Dabadie’s death last month... somehow Rene de Obaldia is still here at 101 Reminds me of 2013, when there was just so many frail old Nobel Prize winners about that I felt sure it was going to be a big year for Prize winners going. So I picked a whole bunch of them for my teams. It turned out I was right, only I picked all the wrong ones! Bar the one guy who was so healthy for his age I was set up to interview him until he requested a delay through his uni as "he was a bit under the weather".... and promptly died a few months later! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted June 24, 2020 54 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said: Fumaroli Is that French for "smoking a roll-up"? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted June 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, Toast said: Is that French for "smoking a roll-up"? Ahah it’s french for « smoking in bed » litteraly 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted June 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Lafaucheuse said: Ahah it’s french for « smoking in bed » litteraly So it is, I never thought of that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 872 Posted June 28, 2020 Charles Webb, author of The Graduate, dies aged 81. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,603 Posted June 28, 2020 27 minutes ago, Whitehouse said: Charles Webb, author of The Graduate, dies aged 81. As was posted 6 days and 6 posts ago. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 872 Posted June 29, 2020 On 28/06/2020 at 15:21, time said: As was posted 6 days and 6 posts ago. Well then the New York Post was late for the party.... Anyway, nice of you to give me a Clive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 1, 2020 Rudolfo Anaya, a founding father of Chicano literature, has died. He was 82. Anaya was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, presented to him in 2016. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/885760327/rudolfo-anaya-a-founding-father-of-chicano-literature-dies-at-82 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chilean way 1,899 Posted July 1, 2020 Sybil Wettassinghe, sri lankan children's author has died at 93 https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/07/01/veteran-childrens-author-kala-keerthi-sybil-wettasinghe-passed-away-at-the-age-of-93/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 8, 2020 Twitter reporting the death of author and birder Steve Madge at age 72. Madge was president of the Cornwall Birdwatching and Preservation Society at the time of his death and a former member of the British Birds Rarities Committee. Edit: Steve Madge paid obit: https://funeral-notices.co.uk/wales/death-notices/notice/MADGE/4859977 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 15, 2020 Joanna Cole, the author of the Magic School Bus series, has died. She was 75. The series was created in 1986 and was later turned into an animated series. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/15/891586790/the-magic-school-bus-series-author-joanna-cole-has-died 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,584 Posted July 20, 2020 Josephine Cox bestselling novelist dead at 82 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted July 30, 2020 Best-selling author and Kabbalah teacher Karen Berg, who has served as the Spiritual Director at The Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, died at 77 years: https://kabbalah.com/en/karen Some of her books include God Wears Lipstick, Simple Light and To Be Continued: Reincarnation & the Purpose of Our Lives. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 3, 2020 Ronald Bergan, an author of movie-related books, critic and the Guardian's film obituary writer, has died. He was 82. Bergan had been battling urosepsis. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/28/ronald-bergan-obituary 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,746 Posted August 4, 2020 On 22/05/2019 at 05:22, Bibliogryphon said: Now that Herman Wouk has gone the Top Ten of Pulitzer prize winners looks like: 1965 Shirley Ann Graw (1929) 1969 N Scott Momaday (1934) 1983 Alice Walker (1944) 1984 William Kennedy (1928) 1985 Alison Lurie (1926) 1986 Larry McMurty (1936) 1988 Toni Morrison (1931) 1989 Anne Tyler (1941) 1992 Jane Smiley (1949) 1993 Robert Olen Butler (1945) Shirley Ann Grau dead at 91. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
