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Jeff Torrington
May 11^th 2008
Scottish novelist whose first novel, Swing Hammer Swing, was awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1992.

Nuala O'Faolain
May 10^th 2008
Irish journalist and author who is best known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There and a novel, My Dream of You.

Willem Brakman
May 8^th 2008
Dutch writer whose first novel, Een winterreis / A Winter's Travel was published in 1961. In 1980 he was awarded the P.C. Hooftprijs which is considered to be the highest literary award for the Dutch language.

Luigi Malerba (Luigi Bonardi)
May 8^th 2008
Italian historical novelist and Screenwriter. In 1992 he was awarded the Italian Viareggio Prize for Le pietre volanti.

Park Kyung-ni
May 5^th 2008
South Korean novelist who was best known for her epic 16-volume saga, Toji / Land, set against 19th and 20th century turbulence on the Korean Peninsula.

Elaine Dundy
May 1^st 2008
American novelist, playwright, journalist, actress and biographer. Between 1951 and 1964 she was married to the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan.

Helen Yglesias
March 28^th 2008
American novelist who died at the age of 92, one day short of her 93rd birthday. Her most famous work Sweetsir was published in 1981.

E. A. Markham
March 23^rd 2008
Montserrat born poet and writer who was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.

Jon Hassler
March 20^th 2008
American writer and teacher who was known for his novels about small town life in Minnesota.He was diagnosed with progressive superanuclear palsy in 1994.

Arthur C. Clarke
March 18^th 2008
British science fiction writer died in Sri Lanka aged 90. He was the author of 'The Sentinel', short story which was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by director Stanley Kubrick.

Julian Rathbone
February 18^th 2008
English novelist who was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize; once in 1976 for King Fisher Lives and again in 1979 for Joseph.

Sujatha (S. Rangarajan)
February 27^th 2008
Tamil writer who produced over 100 novels and 250 short stories.

Emilio Carballido
February 11^th 2008
Mexican author and playwright who produced over one hundred plays as well as nine novels. After his death it was announced that the state theatre and one of the state prizes would be renamed in his honor.

Phyllis A. Whitney
February 8^th 2008
American mystery writer died aged 104. She was awarded Edgar Awards for Best Juvenile novel in 1961 for The Mystery of the Haunted Pool, and in 1964 for The Mystery of the Hidden Hand.

Eva Dahlbeck
February 8^th 2008
Swedish actress and author who became internationally known for her leads in a number of Ingmar Bergman’s films. She gave up acting in the 1960s to concentrate on writing and wrote over a dozen novels.

Edward D. Hoch
January 17^th 2008
American writer of detective fiction mainly know for his short stories, which were published in both Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Nancy Phelan
January 11^th 2008
Australian writer of biographies, memoirs, travel books and novels. She was honoured with the Patrick White Award in recognition of her lifetime's contribution to Australian literature.

Lotte Moos
January 10^th 2008
German poet and playwright who escaped Hitler’s Germany in 1933 only to be denounced as an agent of the Kremlin in 1939 and interrogated by MI5 before being cleared of all charges.

Andrés Henestrosa
January 10^th 2008
Mexican writer and politician. He used Zapotec myths and legends as the basis of his book Los hombres que dispersó la danza / The Men Scattered by Dance, published in 1929.

Stig Claesson
January 4^th 2008
Swedish writer and illustrator who produced over eighty books and was awarded many literary awards including the Selma Lagerlöf Prize.

Lisandro Otero
January 3^rd 2008
Cuban novelist, awarded the National Prize of Literature in 2002 and director of the Cuban Academy of Language. His novels include The Situation and Urbino's Passion.

George MacDonald Fraser
January 2^nd 2008
British author of fiction and non-fiction who is best remembered for his series of twelve Flashman books; the first being published in 1969 and the last in 2005. He was the father of the novelist Caro Fraser.