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A Lucilla Andrews 1919-2006 British writer of popular hospital romances. During her writing career Andrews wrote thirty-five romantic novels and an autobiographical memoir. Her memoir, No Time For Romance, was credited by Ian McEwan as inspiring parts of his novel Atonement. Duygu Asena 1946-2006 Turkish feminist author. Her first novel, ‘Kadinin Adi Yok’ (The Woman Has No Name), was banned by the Turkish government for undermining marriage. The ban was removed after a legal battle and her subsequent novels all became bestsellers that were translated into several languages. William Auld 1924-2006 Scottish author, poet, and translator, remembered for his work promoting the Esperanto language. As well as his own work he translated work by Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien into Esperanto. Auld was the first person nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature for work in Esperanto. Top B Sybille Bedford 1911-2006 British author, born into German nobility she married a British army officer in 1935 and obtained a British passport. Her non-fiction was more widely acclaimed than her fiction, in particular her coverage of court cases including Lady Chaterley trial. In 1981 she was awarded an OBE. Vizma Belsevica 1931-2005 Latvian poet and translator who was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is one of a very few Latvian writers whose work has been translated and published outside of Latvia. Peter Benchley 1940-2006 American author, remembered for his novel Jaws which was filmed in 1975 by Steven Spielberg. Of all his achievements, he was most proud of his conservation work, including presenting wildlife programmes and writing for National Geographic. Top Nel Benschop 1918-2005 One of the bestselling poets in the Netherlands. She trained as a teacher and taught English, Dutch and French until her retirement in 1981. She started writing poetry in 1948; recurring themes in her writing are death, Christianity and suffering; her work is often quoted in death notices. George Bernau 1945-2005 American author of alternative history thrillers. His stories deal with ‘what-if’ scenarios featuring historical figures such as John F. Kennedy in Promises to Keep. A.I. Besserides (Albert Isaac Bezzerides) 1908-2007 American novelist and screenwriter. His 1938 novel ‘The Long Haul’ was filmed by Warner Bros. as They Drive By Night starring Humphrey Bogart. During screenwriting career he was responsible for several film noir screenplays, including ‘Kiss Me Deadly’, based on a story by Mickey Spillane. Top Clare Boylan 1948-2006 Irish novelist, journalist and short story writer best remembered for completing Charlotte Bronte's unfinished novel Emma Brown. Willem Brakman 1922-2008 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. Yanka Bryl 1917-2006 Belarusian writer. He served in the Polish navy during WWII, but he was captured by the Germans in the autumn of 1939 and remained captive until autumn 1941 when he escaped. After the end of the war he worked as a journalist for several magazines; his first work was published in 1946. Lothar-Günther Buchheim 1918-2007 German author and painter best known for writing Das Boot, filmed by Wolfgang Petersen. In 1941 he was a war correspondent in Nazi Germany and he went on patrol with the crew of U-96 to record the activity on the U-boat for propaganda; an experience he turned into a bestselling novel. Alex Buzo 1944-2006 Australian playwright and author. His best known work is his groundbreaking first play ‘Norm and Ahmed’, which caused a scandal when several actors performing the work were charged with obscenity for using the f-word, the first time the word had been used on an Australian stage. Top C David Campton 1924-2006 English playwright who produced work for the stage, screen and radio. He was one of the first British playwrights to show the influence of the Theatre of the Absurd in his work, although he was never to have the same impact as Harold Pinter. Emilio Carballido 1925-2008 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. Angela Carter 1940-1992 English novelist. She was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1968 for The Magic Toyshop. During the Eighties her work was opened to a wider audience through Neil Jordan's film The Company of Wolves which was based on some of the stories from The Bloody Chamber. Stig Claesson 1928-2008 Swedish writer and illustrator who produced over eighty books and was awarded many literary awards including the Selma Lagerlöf Prize. Arthur C. Clarke March 18th 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. Jake Copass 1922-2006 American cowboy poet. He was born in Texas, but lived and worked in California from 1946. He appeared regularly at Cowboy Poetry festivals. Nigel Cox 1951-2006 New Zealand author who had his first novel published in 1994 while he was working in a bookshop in Wellington. His novel ‘Dirty Work’ was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. Helen Cresswell 1934-2005 English author of books for children. She is best remembered for her series of stories featuring the character Lizzie Dripping. She also adapted stories for television, for example Five Children and It by E. Nesbit. Top D Eva Dahlbeck 1920-2008 Swedish actress and author. One of Sweden’s most popular actresses in the 1940s and ‘50s 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. Maureen Daly 1921-2006 American author who is best remembered for her 1942 coming-of-age novel Seventeenth Summer which Daly wrote while she herself was a teenager. Elaine Dundy 1921-2008 American novelist, playwright, journalist, actress and biographer. She wrote three novels The Dud Avocado (1958), The Old Man and Me (1964) and The Injured Party (1974). Between 1951 and 1964 she was married to the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Roger Deakin 1943-2006 English writer and environmentalist, remembered for Waterlog which recounted his journey swimming ‘wild’ through Britain. Deakin travelled the British Isles by swimming in as many open water spaces as he could find; the idea came from the short story The Swimmer by John Cheever. Jean-Francois Deniau 1928-2007 French statesman and novelist; became a member of the Académie Française in 1992. He wrote several books that drew on his experiences of sailing, including sailing across the Atlantic just eight weeks after undergoing triple heart bypass surgery. Michael Dibdin 1947-2007 English crime writer, best remembered for his series of mysteries featuring the Venetian detective Aurelio Zen. During his career he wrote sixteen novels, eleven featuring Zen, and they were translated into eighteen languages. William Diehl 1924-2006 American novelist and journalist. He began writing his first novel Sharky's Machine as a way of dealing with his boredom while he was serving as a juror. Sharky's Machine was filmed as to was his novel Primal Fear. Siobhan Dowd 1960-2007 British children's author and human rights campaigner. After studying classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she worked with English PEN, the writers' organisation, as the researcher for its writers in prison committee. Her first novel to be published was A Swift Pure Cry in 2006. Top E Marion Eames 1921-2007 Welsh historical novelist who wrote about the persecution of Quakers in Wales. Born in Merseyside to Welsh parents she was brought up and educated in Wales. She worked as a librarian before becoming a radio producer for the BBC in Cardiff. Cyprian Ekwensi 1921-2007 Nigerian short-story writer and children's author. His best known novel, Jagua Nana, was published in 1961. Paul E. Erdman (Paul Emil Erdman) 1932-2007 Canadian born author of best-selling novels with financial plots. He began writing ‘The Billion Dollar Sure Thing’ whilst in jail on fraud charges. The novel went on to win an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1974. F Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-2000 English Biographer, Poet and Novelist. She started her writing career late in life, aged sixty. She wrote a total of nine novels, three of which; The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels, were short-listed for the Booker Prize, she won the award in 1979 for Offshore. Colin Forbes (Raymond Sawkins) 1923-2006 British novelist, wrote under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Richard Raine, Jay Bernard, Harold English and most prolifically using Colin Forbes. His work has been translated into over thirty languages and regularly appeared on bestseller lists. John M. Ford (John Milo Ford) 1957-2006 American poet, science fiction and fantasy writer, known to his friends as ‘Mike’. He was also the author of two Star Trek novels. His novel The Dragon Waiting was awarded the 1984 World Fantasy Award. Top G David Gemmell 1948-2006 English fantasy writer. He worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers, including the Daily Mail and the Mirror. His first novel, ‘Legend’, was published in 1984 and he was able to work full time as a writer from 1986. He died whilst recovering from heart by-pass surgery. Karl Gjellerup 1857-1919 Danish poet and novelist. He was awarded the 1917 (jointly with Henrik Pontoppidan) Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals’. John Godey (Morton Freedgood) 1913-2006 American writer of detective and mystery novels, best remembered for his story The Taking of Pelham One Two Three which was made into a successful film in 1974 starring Walter Matthau. He took his pen name from a ladies magazine from the 1880s called Godey's Ladies Book. Patricia Goedicke (Patricia Goedicke Robinson) 1923-2006 American poet. Charles L. Grant (Charles Lewis Grant) 1942-2006 American dark fantasy novelist, editor and short story writer, born in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating with a B.A. in History and English he worked as a secondary school teacher for ten years. In 1975 he gave up teaching to concentrate full-time on writing and editing. Gerald Green 1922-2006 American author, producer and director whose best known novel, The Last Angry Man, was adapted into an Oscar nominated film. He also wrote the award winning TV series Holocaust, watched by 300 million people worldwide and which he later adapted into a bestselling novel. Patricia Guiver 1930-2006 British born author who used her passion for animals to create a series of six mysteries featuring ‘Delilah Doolittle’ a pet detective. She was born in Surrey and started working as a journalist in London and then moved to America, where she started writing late in life. Lars Gyllensten 1921-2006 Swedish novelist, who as a member of the Swedish Academy was involved in the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz and Gabriel García Márquez among others. Top H Roger Hargreaves 1935-1988 British author and illustrator of children's books, he is best remembered for the ‘Mr. Men’ and ‘Little Miss’ series. He said that he first came up with the idea for the ‘Mr. Men’ when his son, Adam, asked him what a tickle looked like. Jon Hassler 1933-2008 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. The disease, similar to Parkinson's, gave him problems with his sight, speech and movement but he was able to continue writing. Gyozo Hatar 1912-2006 Hungarian poet. In 1943 he was charged with conspiracy against the state after the publication of his novel Csodák országa, hátsó Eurázsia. He was sentenced to death but this was reduced to five years imprisonment, of which he served eighteen months. Joseph Hayes 1918-2006 American novelist who found fame in the 1950's with the suspense novel The Desperate Hours which was subsequently developed into a Tony Award winning Broadway play starring Paul Newman and was filmed starring Humphrey Bogart. John Haylock 1918-2006 English novelist who was born in Bournemouth, England but made the decision to spend most of his life away from England due to the law which made his sexuality illegal until 1967. Andrés Henestrosa January 10th 2008 Mexican writer and politician. He was born in Ixhuatán, Oaxaca and grew up speaking the Zapotec language. He used Zapotec myths and legends as the basis of his first book Los hombres que dispersó la danza / The Men Scattered by Dance which was published in 1929. Philip E. High (Philip Empson High) 1914-2006 British writer of science-fiction. During the WWI he served in the Navy and after the War he worked as a bus driver, until he retired in 1979. He started writing during the 1950's, having his work published in science-fiction magazines, before having his first novel published in 1964. Edward D. Hoch 1930-2008 American writer of detective fiction who wrote several novels but was mainly know for his prolific output of short stories, which at the time of his death was over 900, which were published in both Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Lee Hoffman (Shirley Bell Hoffman) 1932-2006 American author of science fiction and Western novels; she also wrote historical romance under the pseudonym of Georgia York. She was the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for her novel The Valdez Horses, which was also filmed in 1973 starring Charles Bronson. Harry Horse (Richard Horne) 1960-2007 Scottish author and illustrator of children's books. He worked as a political cartoonist for several newspapers before he turned to children's books. He died in an apparent suicide pact with his wife Mandy, who was confined to a wheelchair due to multiple sclerosis. Top I Ulfat Idilbi 1912-2007 Syrian author, born in Damascus she began writing and publishing stories in magazines when she was a teenager. She is best known for her novel Dimashq ya Basmat al-Huzn (Sabriya: Damascus Bitter-Sweet) which was published in 1980 when Ulfat was in her seventies. J Elizabeth Jolley 1923-2007 English-born author, she emigrated to Australia with her family in 1959. Her first book, ‘Five Acre Virgin’, was published in 1976 when she was 57. Her work focuses on the survival of the outsiders and misfits of society. Top K Lelia Kelly 1958-2007 American mystery novelist who wrote three legal thrillers featuring prosecuting attorney ‘Laura Chastain’. Her second novel, False Witness, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark award from the Mystery Writers of America. Walter Kempowski 1929-2007 German novelist. As well as producing a ten-volume chronicle of WWII made up of diaries, documents, quotes and songs, his interest in German history led him to produce a series of novels dealing with German history, which Kempowski referred to as Deutsche Chronik (German Record). June Knox-Mawer 1930-2006 Welsh broadcaster and writer of both travel memoirs and romance. She spent much time living abroad with her husband who was a colonial magistrate, which had great influence over her writing, for example her first book, The Sultans Came to Tea deals with her life in Aden. Hans Koning 1921-2007 Dutch born author of over forty works of fiction and non-fiction. He fought in both the Dutch resistance and the British Army during the Second World War. After the War he moved to Indonesia before moving to Los Angeles in 1951. Park Kyung-ni May 5th 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. It took Park about 25 years to write and has been made into a TV series, a movie and an opera. L Alberto de Lacerda 1928-2007 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. Hubert Lampo 1920-2006 Flemish writer, born in Antwerp. He worked as a teacher and art critic before dedicating himself to writing full time. His work is associated with Magic Realism, a literary movement that is related to Surrealism, which links ordinary elements with dream-like sequences. Ira Levin 1929-2007 American novelist and playwright. Best remembered for his novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), The Boys from Brazil (1976) and Sliver(1991); all of which have been filmed. John Lincoln (Maurice Cardiff) 1915-2006 Born in Herefordshire he wrote under a pseudonym due to his public position as an officer of the British Council. He wrote about the friends that he made during his time working for the Council in the book Friends Abroad, which was published in 1997 in his own name. Jakov Lind (Heinz Jakov Landwirth) 1927-2007 Austrian-English writer who was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, but left the country in 1938. His work was a success in the UK and US, but it was only in recent years that he became recognised in German speaking countries and presented with several Austrian literary awards. Top M Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ) 1911-2006 Egyptian novelist awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in literature ‘who, through works rich in nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous-has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind’. Luigi Malerba (Luigi Bonardi) 1927-2008 Italian historical novelist and Screenwriter. In 1992 he was awarded the Italian Viareggio Prize for Le pietre volanti. Jan Mark 1943-2006 English childrens writer. Her first book, Thunder and Lightnings, was published in 1976 and was awarded the 1977 Carnegie Medal. She won the medal for a second time in 1984. She died suddenly in her sleep from meningitis-related septicaemia. E. A. Markham (Edward Archie Markham) 1939-2008 Montserrat born poet and writer who was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. He wrote novels, essays, plays and short stories as well as editing anthologies. David I. Masson 1915-2007 Scottish Librarian and sci-fi author. He wrote seven stories, which were published in ‘New Worlds’ magazine between 1965 and 1967. The stories were collected together in The Caltraps of Time and published in 1968. Jill McGown 1947-2007 Scottish born author of mystery novels. After being made redundant from British Steel she started her writing career and went on to produce 17 novels under her own name and the pseudonym “Elizabeth Chaplin”. A.A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne) 1882-1956 British author who is best remembered for his childrens books about Winnie-the-Pooh. After his death his widow sold the rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, who have produced several movies and a huge amount of merchandise. Pierre Moinot 1920-2007 French novelist who was elected to the Académie française in 1982. Lotte Moos 1909-2008 German born 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. Top N Melissa Nathan 1968-2006 English comic romantic novelist. She started work on her first book in her spare time and received a book deal with Random House. She was diagnosed with breast cancer whilst working on her second novel in 2001. She continued writing and both The Nanny and The Waitress became bestsellers. Eric Newby 1909-2006 English travel writer. The Last Grain Race recounts his time spent on the crew of a grain ship from Australia to Europe. Love and War in the Apennines records his experiences during the WWII. An expedition to Afghanistan was recounted in his best known work A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. P. H. Newby (Percy Howard Newby) 1918-1997 English novelist. Won the first Booker Prize in 1969 for ‘Something to Answer For’. Kojima Nobuo 1915-2006 Japanese author who wrote over thirty works of fiction and criticism. As well as producing his own work he also translated the work of William Saroyan and J. D. Salinger into Japanese. Leslie Norris 1921-2006 Welsh Poet and short story writer. He worked as a teacher and lecturer until 1974 when he gave up teaching to concentrate on his writing. At the time of his death he was living with his family in Utah, as his work had received much greater recognition in the US than in his native country. O Nuala O'Faolain 1940-2008 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'. Elizabeth Ogilvie 1917-2006 American author. Her work became popular in the 1940's with High Tide at Noon, the first of what was to become known as the Tide trilogy which begins with the Bennett family who return to lobster-trapping on a barren island, the following books feature descendants of the Bennett family. Tillie Olsen 1912-2007 American feminist writer. Her only completed work of fiction, Tell me a Riddle, is a collection four short stories, the title story was awarded the O.Henry Prize. Olsen was recognised as much for the encouragement that she gave to woman authors, as she was for her own work. Judith O'Neill 1930-2006 Australian writer of children's fiction. Her work is heavily influenced by memories of her childhood in Australia. Mary Orr 1911-2006 American actress and writer who wrote the short story The Wisdom of Eve which became the multi Academy Award winning film ‘All About Eve’ starring Anne Baxter and Bette Davis. Lisandro Otero 1932-2008 Cuban novelist and journalist. He was awarded the National Prize of Literature in 2002 and was the director of the Cuban Academy of Language. His novels include ‘La situación’ / ‘The Situation’ (1963) and ‘Pasión de Urbino’ / ‘Urbino's Passion’ (1966). P Grace Paley 1922-2007 American short-story writer and activist. Born into a New York Jewish immigrant family in the Lower East Side she used this experience to shape her literary style. Her first collection of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, was published in 1959 to critical acclaim. Philippa Pearce 1920-2006 British author; best remembered for the children's classic Tom's Midnight Garden which received the 1959 Carnegie Medal. She received the Whitbread Children's Book award in 1978 for The Battle of Bubble and Squeak. In 1997 she was given an OBE for services to children's literature. Nancy Phelan 1913-2008 Australian writer of biographies, memoirs, travel books and novels. In 2004, at the age of 91, she was honoured with the Patrick White Award in recognition of her lifetime's contribution to Australian literature. Henrik Pontoppidan 1857-1943 Danish writer. Awarded the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature (jointly with Karl Gjellerup) ‘for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark’. He gave up his education in engineering to become a teacher. In 1880 he became a full time writer. Richard S. Prather 1921-2007 American mystery novelist. In total he wrote 40 books over 36 years, many of which featured the private eye ‘Shell Scott’. In 1986 he was awarded the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Pierre Probst 1913-2007 French author and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for creating the ‘Caroline’ series which have sold over 38 million copies in France and have been translated into fifteen languages. He worked with Enid Blyton during the early 1950's and they released several books together. Top Q Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi 1916-2006 Pakistani poet, short story writer and journalist. He was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature. Throughout his career he was the editor of several journals and published around fifty books over a period of seventy years. R Raja Rao 1908-2006 Indian writer of novels and short stories in English. Between 1966 and 1983 he taught in North America at the University of Texas, and he remained in America until his death. Julian Rathbone 1935-2008 English novelist who was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize; once in 1976 for King Fisher Lives and again in 1979 for Joseph.   Amanda McKittrick Ros 1860-1939 Irish novelist and poet whose work was famed amongst admirers as being the worst ever written. Her work was used as entertainment by the Inklings at Oxford; which included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien; they would see who could read her work aloud for longest without laughing. Bernice Rubens 1928-2004 Welsh novelist. Winner of the 1970 Booker Prize for ‘The Elected Member’. She was born in Cardiff and educated at the University of Wales. Her novels often drew on her own Jewish background. Hans Ruesch 1913-2007 Italian writer and racing driver. During the 1930s he took part in 100 motor races; winning 27 of them. He turned to writing in 1938, following an accident. In 1946 his novel Top of the World, which deals with Eskimo life, became a bestseller. S Paul Scott 1920-1978 British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his tetralogy the Raj Quartet The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence & A Division of Spoils. In 1977 he was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel, Staying On. Barbara Seranella 1956-2007 American author. She worked as a mechanic for seventeen years before retiring in 1993 so that she could concentrate on writing. She wrote nine crime novels, eight of which feature the female mechanic ‘Munch Mancini’. Seranella died from liver disease whilst awaiting a transplant. Enzo Siciliano 1934-2006 Italian author. He was at the forefront of a group of writers who dominated the intellectual life of Rome from the 1960s. As well as novels he wrote biographies which reflected his passion for music and he also wrote a biography of his friend, the film director and writer Paolo Pasolini. Claude Simon 1913-2005 French novelist, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition’. György Somlyó 1920-2006 Hungarian poet. He studied Hungarian and French literature at University in Budapest. During the 40s and 50s he had various jobs working in theatre, film, radio and publishing industries and it wasn't until the 1960s that he became recognised as a writer. Gilbert Sorrentino 1929-2006 American novelist and poet. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and taught at various Universities, including Columbia and Stanford. Jeffrey Eugenides, author of ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and ‘Middlesex’, was one of his students. His son, Christopher Sorrentino, is also a novelist. Steve J. Spears 1951-2007 Australian playwright, author and television writer. Author of the stage hit The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, he began writing detective novels in the late 1990s that featured Detective Stella Pentangeli, including Innocent Murder and Murder by Manuscript. Madeleine St John 1941-2006 Australian novelist. She was fifty-two when her first novel, The Women in Black, was published. She wrote three other novels which are all set in Notting Hill. The Essence of the Thing is her most highly regarded work and was on the short-list for the 1997 Booker Prize. Fred Mustard Stewart 1932-2006 American author of horror, science fiction and sagas which although were unpopular with reviewers were popular with readers. His first novel, The Mephisto Waltz, features a writer who becomes involved with an elderly concert pianist and was filmed in 1971 starring Alan Alda. Elizabeth Stromme 1947-2006 American thriller author and gardening columnist. Her novels were first published in France before being published in English. She was fluent in French but wrote her novels in English and her husband, who she met in France in the 1970's, oversaw the translations into French. Sujatha (S. Rangarajan) 1935-2008 Tamil writer who produced over 100 novels and 250 short stories.   Mária Szepes September 2007 Hungarian author, journalist and screenwriter who also used the pseudonyms Mária Papir and Mária Orsi. Her first novel A Vörös Oroszlán / The Red Lion, written in a hideout during the WWII and published in Hungary in 1946; it was prohibited during the communist regime. Top T Mark Tavener ? - 2007 British novelist who also wrote for BBC radio and television. His first novel, In the Red, was nominated for a PG Wodehouse Prize, and was also adapted for BBC Radio 4 before transferring to BBC2. Theodore Taylor 1921-2006 American author who wrote over fifty novels during his career but is best remembered for his 1969 novel for The Cay, which at one point was on the high school recommended reading lists of thirty-eight states. Colin Thiele 1920-2007 Australian author of children's fiction. His work often deals with rural life in Australia and several of his books, including Blue Fin and Storm Boy, have been made into films. Jeff Torrington 1935-2008 Scottish novelist whose first novel, Swing Hammer Swing, was awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1992. Wilson Tucker 1914-2006 American science fiction and mystery writer. Tucker first became involved in the sci-fi world as a fan when he started publishing a fanzine in 1938. He produced over twenty novels, his best known being The Year of the Quiet Sun. In 2003 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. U Dorothy Uhnak 1930-2006 American crime novelist who drew on her 14 years of experience as a policewoman with the New York City Transit Authority. She wrote nine works of fiction and one of non-fiction; they have been translated into fifteen languages. Francisco Umbral 1935-2007 Spanish journalist, novelist and biographer. Umbral won numerous prizes, including the Premio Nadal in 1975 with Las Ninfas / The Nymphs and the two highest awards in Spanish-language letters, the Príncipe de Asturias in 1996 and the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 2000. V Peter Viereck 1944-2006 American poet who was awarded the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection of poetry Terror and Decorum. He was born in New York and studied history at Harvard. As well as writing poetry he was a history professor at Mount Holyoke College for nearly fifty years. Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007 American novelist, who combined satire and science fiction to create some of the best American novels of the Twentieth-Century. His experiences during the Second World War influenced much of his work, particularly his best known novel Slaughterhouse-Five Ida Vos 1931-2006 Dutch author of books for both adults and children that focus on her experiences as a Jewish child during the Second World War. Top W Wendy Wasserstein 1950-2006 American playwright. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for ‘The Heidi Chronicles’. She was known as a writer of comedies, although the themes of her plays are serious and her work records the wants and disappointments of modern American women. Phyllis A. Whitney (Phyllis Ayame Whitney) 1903-2008 American mystery writer died aged 104. She wrote over 70 books for both adults and children. She was awarded Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Juvenile novel in 1961 for The Mystery of the Haunted Pool, and again in 1964 for The Mystery of the Hidden Hand. Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007 American novelist and conspiracy theory researcher who is best remembered as the co-author, along with Robert Shea, of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Wilson continued to focus on the theme of The Illuminatus! Trilogy throughout his career. Hans Wolker 1925-2007 Dutch author and artist. He is one of the main authors in post Second World War Dutch literature. His 1969 novel Turks Fruit / Turkish Delight was made into a highly successful movie staring Rutger Hauer and directed by Paul Verhoeven. Joan Wyndham 1922-2007 English bohemian writer, achieved success with the publication of the diaries that she kept during the Second World War. One of her daughters convinced Joan to get an edited edition of her wartime diaries published. Love Lessons was an instant success, as was the follow up Love is Blue X Y Helen Yglesias 1915-2008 American novelist who died at the age of 92, one day short of her 93rd birthday. She began writing professionally at the age of 54 after a career as a book reviewer and editor. Her most famous work Sweetsir was published in 1981. Top Z	Search By:

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