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Ira Levin
November 12^th 2007
American novelist and playwright. Best remembered for his novels
A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives.

Norman Mailer
November 10^th 2007
American novelist died aged 84. Author of The Naked and the Dead. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980 for The Executioner's Song.

Peter Viertel
November 4^th 2007
German born novelist and screenwriter. Viertel died nineteen days after the death of his second wife Deborah Kerr.

Cyprian Ekwensi
November 4^th 2007
Nigerian short-story writer and children’s author. His best known novel, Jagua Nana, was published in 1961.

Jan Wolkers
October 19^th 2007
Dutch author and artist, author of Turkish Delight which was made into a movie starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Paul Verhoeven.

Mark Tavener
October 18^th 2007
British novelist who also wrote for BBC radio and television. His first novel, In the Red, was nominated for a PG Wodehouse Prize.

Alan Coren
October 18^th 2007
English journalist, writer and satirist regular member of BBC Radio 4’s 'The News Quiz' and BBC Television’s 'Call My Bluff' as well the editor of 'Punch' magazine for nine years.

Steve J. Spears
October 16^th 2007
Australian playwright, author and television writer. Author of The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, and detective novels including Innocent Murder and Murder by Manuscript.

Walter Kempowski
October 5^th 2007
German novelist. Author of a ten-volume chronicle of WWII, and a series of novels dealing with German history, which Kempowski referred to as Deutsche Chronik (German Record).

Madeleine L'Engle
September 6^th 2007
American children's writer who wrote over sixty books and who is best remembered for A Wrinkle in Time.

Mária Szepes
September 3^rd 2007
Hungarian author, journalist and screenwriter.
Author of The Red Lion written in a hideout during the WWII and published in Hungary in 1946.

Francisco Umbral
August 28^th 2007
Spanish journalist and novelist, author of The Nymphs. Umbral won numerous prizes, including the Premio Nadal, the Príncipe de Asturias and the Premio Miguel de Cervantes.

Hans Ruesch
August 27^th 2007
Italian writer and racing driver. In 1946 his novel Top of the World, which deals with Eskimo life, became a bestseller.

Alberto de Lacerda
August 27^th 2007
Portuguese poet and BBC Radio Presenter. He died in London at the age of 79; his body was found by the English novelist Ian McEwan, with whom he had a lunch planned.

Grace Paley
August 22^nd 2007
American short-story writer and activist. Her first collection of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, was published in 1959 to critical acclaim.

Siobhan Dowd
August 21^st 2007
British children’s author and human rights campaigner, author of A Swift Pure Cry died aged 47.

Qurrat-ul-Ain Hyder
August 21^st 2007
Urdu novelist and short story writer died aged 81.

Paul E. Erdman
April 23^rd 2007
Canadian born author of best selling financial based novels died aged 74.

Hans Koning
April 13^th 2007
Dutch author of fiction and non-fiction died aged 85.

Pierre Probst
April 12^th 2007
French author and illustrator of the ‘Caroline’ books.

Kurt Vonnegut
April 11^th 2007
American novelist who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five died aged 84.

Joan Wyndham
April 8^th 2007
English author of Love Lessons died aged 85.

Jill McGown
April 6^th 2007
British author of mystery novels featuring detectives Lloyd and Hill.

Thomas Hal Phillips
Aprl 3^rd 2007
American author and screenwriter died aged 84.

Marion Eames
April 3^rd 2007
Welsh historical novelist died aged 85.

Driss Chraïbi
April 1^st 2007
Moroccan novelist died aged 80.

Michael Dibdin
March 30^th 2007
English crime writer died shortly after his sixtieth birthday. He is best remembered for his Aurelio Zen series of mysteries set in Italy.

Ulfat Idilbi
March 21^st 2007
Syrian author died aged 94.

Lelia Kelly
March 13^th 2007
American author of legal thrillers died aged 48.

Pierre Moinot
March 6^th 2007
French novelist and member of the Académie française.

Henri Troyat
March 4^th 2007
French author, biographer and member of the Académie française died aged 95.

David I. Masson
February 25^th 2007
Scottish Librarian and author of 'The Caltraps of Time'.

Lothar-Günther Buchheim
February 22^nd 2007
German painter and writer, best remembered for his bestselling novel Das Boot, died aged 89.

Jakov Lind
February 17^th 2007
Austrian-English writer died aged 80.

Richard S. Prather
February 14^th 2007
American mystery novelist and creator of the private eye ‘Shell Scott’ died aged 85.

Elizabeth Jolley
February 13^th 2007
English born author died aged 83.

Benedict Kiely
February 9^th 2007
Irish novelist and journalist died aged 87.

Fred Mustard Stewart
February 7^th 2007
American author of popular novels, several of which were filmed, died aged 74.

Lee Hoffman
February 6^th 2007
American author of science fiction and Western novels.

Sidney Sheldon
January 30^th 2007
American best-selling popular novelist died aged 89 from pneumonia.

Jean-François Deniau
January 24^th 2007
French stateman, traveller and novelist died aged 78.

Barbara Seranella
January 21^st 2007
American mystery author died aged 50 from liver disease.

Robert Anton Wilson
January 11^th 2007
American novelist and conspiracy theory researcher died aged 74.

Harry Horse
January 10^th 2007
Children’s author and illustrator died in an apparent suicide pact with his wife.

A.I. Bezzerides
January 1^st 2007
American novelist and screenwriter died aged 98 from injuries he received in a fall.

Tillie Olsen
January 1^st 2007
American feminist writer died age 94.