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Humayun Ahmed
Literature & Poetry
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Humayun Ahmed

হুমায়ূন আহমেদ
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
1948-11-13 – 2012-07-19 (63 years old)

Prolific and beloved literary colossus of Bangladesh whose hundreds of bestselling novels, television dramas, and movies (such as 'Aguner Poroshmoni') captivated millions of Bengali readers across generations.

Pirujali, Gazipur, Bangladesh
Stephen Covey
Literature & Poetry
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Stephen Covey

Stephen Richards Covey
🇺🇸 United States
1932 – 2012 (79 years old)

Influential American educator and management consultant whose 1989 self-mastery book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People sold over 40 million copies in forty languages.

Sandy, United States
Ray Bradbury
Literature & Poetry
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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury
🇺🇸 United States
1920 – 2012 (91 years old)

One of America's most celebrated 20th-century authors, whose dystopian masterpiece Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man brought science fiction into the literary mainstream.

Los Angeles, United States
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Bernard Zadi Zaourou

Bernard Zadi Zaourou
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire
1938-10-14 – 2012-03-20 (73 years old)

Renowned academic, poet, and dramatist who theorized the 'Didiga' aesthetic grounded in African oral traditions, authoring groundbreaking plays including 'L'Oeil' and 'La Termitière'.

Soubré, Côte d'Ivoire
Ibrahim Aslan
Literature & Poetry
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Ibrahim Aslan

إبراهيم أصلان
🇪🇬 Egypt
1935 – 2012 (76 years old)

Celebrated Egyptian author and leading figure of the 'Generation of the Sixties', whose novel The Heron (Malik al-Hazin) depicted working-class Cairo and was adapted into the classic film Kit Kat.

Giza, Egypt
Christa Wolf
Literature & Poetry
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Christa Wolf

Christa Ihlenfeld
🇩🇪 Germany
1929 – 2011 (82 years old)

The preeminent author of East Germany whose complex psychological novels Cassandra, They Divided the Sky, and Patterns of Childhood critically examined socialist ideals, memory, and totalitarian power.

Berlin, Germany
Norman Corwin
Literature & Poetry
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Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin
🇺🇸 United States
1910 – 2011 (101 years old)

Revered American writer, director, and producer during the Golden Age of Radio whose patriotic broadcast On a Note of Triumph celebrated the end of World War II in Europe before 60 million listeners.

Los Angeles, United States
Margaret Ogola
Literature & Poetry
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Margaret Ogola

Margaret Atieno Ogola
🇰🇪 Kenya
1958-06-12 – 2011-09-21 (53 years old)

Renowned pediatrician and author whose epic 1994 debut novel 'The River and the Source' won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.

Nairobi, Kenya
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Literature & Poetry
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Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1915 – 2011 (96 years old)

Renowned British travel writer and World War II hero who walked across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933 and abducted German General Kreipe in Nazi-occupied Crete.

Dumbleton, United Kingdom
Jorge Semprún
Literature & Poetry
14
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Jorge Semprún

Jorge Semprún Maura
🇪🇸 Spain
1923 – 2011 (87 years old)

Spanish novelist, French Resistance fighter, and Buchenwald concentration camp survivor who wrote screenplays for Costa-Gavras (Z) and served as Spain's Minister of Culture.

Garentreville, France
Ernesto Sabato
Literature & Poetry
15
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Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato
🇦🇷 Argentina
1911 – 2011 (99 years old)

Towering Argentine novelist and moral authority who wrote The Tunnel and On Heroes and Tombs, and led the landmark CONADEP investigation Nunca Más into military junta disappearances.

Pilar, Argentina
Arnošt Lustig
Literature & Poetry
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Arnošt Lustig

Arnošt Lustig
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
1926 – 2011 (84 years old)

Acclaimed Czech-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor who survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, dedicating his literary life to chronicling the human spirit under extreme Nazi brutality.

Prague, Czech Republic
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