Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Peter Carson

Great Britain

c. 1939 – 2013 (74 years old)

Peter Carson was an English publisher, editor and translator of Russian literature.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Maruša Krese

Switzerland

c. 1948 – 2013 (65 years old)

Maruša Krese was a Slovene poet, writer and journalist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Richard Ben Cramer

United States

c. 1951 – 2013 (62 years old)

Richard Ben Cramer was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Metin Kaçan

Turkey

c. 1962 – 2013 (51 years old)

Metin Kaçan was a Turkish author, who is best known for his novel Ağır Roman, which was translated into German, and a movie, directed by Mustafa Altıoklar (1999), was based on it.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ankara, Turkey

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Sol Yurick

United States

c. 1926 – 2013 (87 years old)

Solomon Yurick was an American novelist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Leung Ping-kwan

Switzerland

c. 1950 – 2013 (63 years old)

Leung Ping-kwan, pen name Yěsī (也斯), was a Hong Kong poet, novelist, essayist, translator, teacher, and scholar who received the Hong Kong Medal of Honour (MH). Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Gwendoline Butler

Great Britain

c. 1923 – 2013 (90 years old)

Gwendoline Williams Butler was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom

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Salik Lucknawi

India

c. 1914 – 2013 (99 years old)

Salik Lucknawi was the nom de plume of Shaukat Riaz Kapoor, an Indian Urdu poet and journalist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

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Pir Gohar

Switzerland

c. 1932 – 2013 (81 years old)

Syed Pir Gohar Ali Shah, also known as Shaer-i-Aman, was a Pakistani poet, songwriter, critic and freedom activist who primarily wrote poems in Pashto language. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Richard A. Long

United States

c. 1928 – 2013 (85 years old)

Richard A. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

United States

c. 1960 – 2013 (53 years old)

Susan Kay Nolen-Hoeksema was an American psychologist and professor at Yale University. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Boris Strugatsky

Борис Натанович Стругацкий

Russia

1933 – 2012 (79 years old)

Russian science fiction author who with his brother Arkady wrote Roadside Picnic (adapted into Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker) and Hard to Be a God, creating timeless allegories of totalitarianism and moral conscience.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin

France

1927 – 2012 (85 years old)

Distinguished French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the review L'Éphémère who directed the Galerie Maeght and served as the definitive biographer of Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró.

Paris, France

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Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm

Egypt

1917 – 2012 (95 years old)

Preeminent British Marxist historian whose monumental four-volume history of the modern world (The Age of Revolution, Capital, Empire, and Extremes) shaped historical understanding globally.

London, United Kingdom

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Robert Hughes

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes

Australia

1938 – 2012 (74 years old)

Australian art critic and author who served as Time magazine's chief art critic for three decades, celebrated for his landmark BBC television history of modern art The Shock of the New.

New York City, United States

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John Keegan

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan

Great Britain

1934 – 2012 (77 years old)

Preeminent British military historian whose 1976 classic The Face of Battle transformed military historiography by examining combat through the visceral sensory experience of the frontline soldier.

Kilmington, United Kingdom

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

United States

1925 – 2012 (86 years old)

Iconic American novelist, essayist, and razor-witted public intellectual whose historical novels (Lincoln, Burr) and piercing political critiques dissected the American empire.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy Snell

Ireland

1939 – 2012 (73 years old)

Warm and beloved Irish novelist, journalist, and columnist whose compassionate portrayals of rural and small-town Irish life in Circle of Friends and Tara Road sold over 40 million books worldwide.

Dublin, Ireland

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