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Wilma Dykeman
December 22^nd 2006
American writer who created a chronicle of Appalachia.

Philippa Pearce
December 21^st 2006
British author of children’s novels, including the classic 'Tom's Midnight Garden'.

Elizabeth Stromme
December 7^th 2006
Author of Joe's Word and gardening columnist died of gastric cancer aged 59.

Gyozo Határ
November 27^th 2006
Hungarian poet and writer died in London aged 93.

William Diehl
November 24^th 2006
American author dies from an Aortic aneurysm aged 81.

Kojima Nobuo
October 26^th 2006
Japanese author of 'Embracing Family' dies from pneumonia.

Theodore Taylor
October 26^th 2006
American author of the young-adult novel ‘The Cay’ dies aged 85.

Eric Newby
October 20^th 2006
English travel writer dies aged 86. 

Wilson Tucker
October 6^th 2006
American author of science-fiction and mystery.

Lucilla Andrews
October 3^rdAuthor of romantic hospital fiction has died aged 86.

André Schwarz-Bart
October 1^st 2006
French novelist, author of ‘The Last of the Just’, dies in Guadeloupe.

András Süto
September 30^th 2006
Romanian born writer who became a leading author and playwright in Hungary.

Maureen Daly
September 25th 2006
American author, who is credited with being the first to write in the ‘young-adult’ genre, died aged 85.

John M Ford
September 24th 2006
American poet, science fiction and fantasy writer died aged 49.

Mary Orr
September 22^nd 2006
Writer of the short story that became the Hollywood film ‘All About Eve’.

Charles L. Grant
September 15^th 2006
American fantasy novelist and short story writer dies from heart failure.

Joseph Hayes
September 11^th 2006
Author of ‘The Desperate Hours’ dies aged 88.

William Auld
September 11^th 2006
Scottish poet and advocate of Esperanto.

David Campton
September 9^th 2006
English playwright who was inspired by the Theatre of the Absurd, dies aged 82.

Elisabeth Ogilvie
September 9^th 2006
Prolific author, whose novels portrayed life on the coast of Maine, died aged 89.

Colin Thiele
September 4^th 2006
Award-winning Australian children’s author.

György Faludy
September 1^st 2006
One of the greatest Hungarian literary figures of the last century.

Naguib Mahfouz
August 30^th 2006
Egyptian Nobel Prize winning novelist dies aged 94.

Gerald Green
August 29^th 2006
American author of ‘The Last Angry Man’ dies aged 84.

Silva Kaputikyan
August 25^th 2006
Armenian poet and writer.

Colin Forbes
August 23^rd 2006
British thriller writer dies from a heart attack

S. Yizhar
August 21^st 2006
Israeli writer died of heart failure aged 89.

Roger Deakin
August 19^th 2006
Environmentalist and travel writer died at his home in Suffolk aged 63.

Shamsur Rahman
August 17^th 2006
Bangladeshi poet dies aged 77.

Alex Buzo
August 16^th 2006
Australian playwright dies aged 62.

Mazisi Kunene
August 12^th 2006
First Poet Laureate of South Africa.

Philip E. High
August 9^th 2006
Bus driver turned sci-fi writer.

Duygu Asena
July 30^th 2006
Turkish author and women’s rights activist dies aged 60 after a two year battle with a brain tumour.

Nigel Cox
July 28^th 2006
New Zealand writer dies from cancer.

David Gemmell
July 28^th 2006
Fantasy writer dies aged 57.

Yanka Bryl
July 24^th 2006
Belarusian poet and short story writer.

Mickey Spillane
July 17^th 2006
Hard-boiled crime writer and creator of the detective
‘Mike Hammer’ dies aged 88.

Patricia Goedicke
July 14^th 2006
American poet and professor died from complications of lung cancer.

Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi
July 10^th 2006
Pakistani poet and short story writer who was a major figure in Urdu literature.

Raja Rao
July 8^th 2006
Indian writer of English language novels and short stories.

Dorothy Uhnak
July 8^th 2006
American crime novelist dies of a deliberate drug overdose.

John Haylock
July 1^st 2006
English gay novelist who lived in Japan for much of his life.

Jacques Lanzmann
June 21^st 2006
French author, songwriter and magazine editor dies in Paris aged 79.

Madeleine St John
June 18^th 2006
Booker short-listed novelist dies.

James McClure
June 17^th 2006
South African born author of crime fiction died aged 66.

Patricia Guiver
June 13^th 2006
British born writer of ‘Pet-Detective’ Fiction and Animal Welfare Activist has died aged 76.

Enzo Siciliano
June 9^th 2006
Italian author has died aged 72.

Jake Copass
June 8^th 2006
American Cowboy poet dies from leukaemia.

Gilbert Sorrentino
May 18^th 2006
American novelist and poet has died aged 77. He is best remembered for his novel 'Mulligan Stew', published in 1979.

Clare Boylan
May 16^th 2006
Irish novelist, best remembered for completing Charlotte Bronte’s unfinished novel.

Stanley Kunitz
May 14^th 2006
Pulitzer Prize winning American poet dies aged 100.

Peter Viereck
May 13^th 2006
Pulitzer Prize winning poet dies aged 90.

Alexander Zinoviev
May 10^th 2006
Russian novelist and philosopher died in Moscow aged 83.

Jerzy Ficowski
May 9^th 2006
Polish poet has died aged 81.

György Somlyó
May 8^th 2006
Hungarian poet has died aged 85.

John Lincoln
May 8^th 2006
Travel writer has died aged 90 in Highgate, London.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer
April 30^th 2006
Indonesian author died at his home in east Jakarta, aged 81.

June Knox-Mawer
April 19^th 2006
Writer and broadcaster has died aged 75.

John Godey
April 16^th 2006
Author of 'The Taking of Pelham One Two Three' died aged 93.

Muriel Spark
April 13^th 2006
Leading British novelist has died at her home in Italy.

Melissa Nathan
April 7^th 2006
English comic romantic novelist.

Leslie Norris
April 6^th 2006
Welsh poet dies aged 85.

Ida Vos
April 3^rd 2006
Dutch author dies aged 74.

John McGahern
March 30^th 2006
Booker-shortlisted Irish writer has died aged 71.

Stanislaw Lem
March 27^th 2006
Polish Sci-Fi author and writer of the twice filmed 'Solaris'.

Judith O'Neill
March 25^th 2006
Australian children’s author.

John Reynolds Gardiner
March 4^th 2006
American children's author.

Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
February 25^th 2006
Ethiopia’s Poet Laureate dies in Manhattan.

Octavia E. Butler
February 24^th 2006
The first female African-American to become a popular science fiction writer.
She is best remembered for the novel 'Kindred'.

Hilde Domin
February 22^nd 2006
German poet dies aged 96.

Sybille Bedford
February 17^th 2006
German born writer and biographer died in London aged 94.

Peter Benchley
February 11^th 2006
American author of Jaws, popularised by the 1975 Steven Spielberg film, who became an advocate for shark conservation.

Wendy Wasserstein
January 30^th 2006
American playwright, whose play 'The Heidi Chronicles' received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for  Drama.

Jan Mark
January 16^th 2006
Leading children’s writer and twice winner of the Carnegie Medal.

Heinrich Harrer
January 7^th 2006
Austrian mountaineer and author of 'Seven Years in Tibet'.

Irving Layton
January 4^th 2006
Canadian poet dies aged 93.