Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Literature & Poetry

18

🕯️ 0

Annamária Kinde

Switzerland

c. 1957 – 2014 (57 years old)

Annamária Kinde was a Romanian journalist, poet and editor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

18 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

19

🕯️ 0

M'hamed Benguettaf

Switzerland

c. 1939 – 2014 (75 years old)

M'hamed Benguettaf was an Algerian actor and playwright.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

19 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

18

🕯️ 0

Jean Metellus

Switzerland

c. 1938 – 2014 (76 years old)

Jean Métellus was a Haitian neurologist, poet, novelist and playwright.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

18 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

17

🕯️ 0

Yōko Mitsui

Japan

c. 1936 – 2014 (78 years old)

Yōko Mitsui (1936–2014) was a distinguished Japan public figure recognized for outstanding contributions in literature.

Tokyo, Japan

17 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

20

🕯️ 0

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Great Britain

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

Elizabeth Jane Howard, was an English novelist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

20 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

20

🕯️ 0

Patrick Heron

Ireland

c. 1953 – 2014 (61 years old)

Patrick Heron was an Irish author, born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Dublin, Ireland

20 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

20

🕯️ 0

Traian T. Coșovei

Switzerland

c. 1955 – 2014 (59 years old)

Traian T. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

20 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

5

🕯️ 0

Dr. Abou El Kacem Saâdallah

أبو القاسم سعد الله

Algeria

1930 – 2013 (83 years old)

Revered as the 'Father of Modern Algerian History', author of the monumental ten-volume 'History of Cultural Movement in Algeria', which resurrected centuries of forgotten thought.

Algiers / El Oued, Algeria

5 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

2

🕯️ 0

Virgílio de Lemos

Virgílio de Lemos

Mozambique

1929-11-29 – 2013-12-05 (84 years old)

Pioneering Lusophone surrealist poet and militant anti-colonial journalist who spent decades in Portuguese military prisons and French exile, writing passionate verses celebrating African emancipation.

Paris, France

2 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

17

🕯️ 0

Ahmed Fouad Negm

أحمد فؤاد نجم

Egypt

May 22, 1929 – December 3, 2013 (84 years old)

Revered Egyptian vernacular poet, activist, and dissident known as 'Al-Fagumi' (The Outspoken), whose biting political satire and lifelong partnership with blind singer Sheikh Imam gave voice to the working poor and political prisoners.

Cairo, Egypt

17 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

0

🕯️ 0

Dagon Taya

ဒဂုန်တာရာ

Historical Burma

1919-05-10 – 2013-08-19 (94 years old)

Towering modernist author, essayist, and peace advocate who led the post-war 'Sar-Thit' (New Literature) movement, championing humanist realism and authoring the classic portrait of Aung San 'Aung San the Untamed'.

Aungban, Shan State, Myanmar

0 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

18

🕯️ 0

Henri Alleg

هنري عاليغ

Great Britain

1921 – 2013 (91 years old)

Algerian journalist, editor of the iconic daily 'Alger Républicain', whose harrowing 1958 book 'The Question'—smuggled out of prison—exposed the systematic torture practiced by French forces in Algeria.

Paris, France

18 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

5

🕯️ 0

Yamina Mechakra

يمينة مشاطرة

Algeria

1949 – 2013 (64 years old)

Celebrated novelist and child psychiatrist whose 1979 masterwork 'La Grotte éclatée', prefaced by Kateb Yacine, is one of the most powerful poetic novels of the War of Independence.

Algiers, Algeria

5 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

27

🕯️ 0

Chinua Achebe

Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe

Nigeria

1930 – 2013 (82 years old)

Revered as the 'Father of Modern African Literature', Nigerian novelist whose groundbreaking Things Fall Apart restored authentic African voice and agency against colonial distortion.

Ogidi (Anambra State), Nigeria

27 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

19

🕯️ 0

Toyo Shibata

Japan

c. 1912 – 2013 (101 years old)

Toyo Shibata was a bestselling Japanese poet.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Tokyo, Japan

19 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

19

🕯️ 0

Jakob Arjouni

Germany

c. 1965 – 2013 (48 years old)

Jakob Bothe, better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Berlin, Germany

19 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

19

🕯️ 0

Tony Conran

Great Britain

c. 1932 – 2013 (81 years old)

Tony Conran was an Anglo-Welsh poet and translator of Welsh poetry. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

19 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

20

🕯️ 0

Kari Jormakka

Switzerland

c. 1960 – 2013 (53 years old)

Kari Juhani Jormakka was a Finnish architect, historian, critic and pedagogue.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

20 Full Record →