Sillitoe, English novelist (born 1928) April 28 Evelyn Cunningham, American journalist (born 1916) Stefania Grodzieńska, Polish writer and actress (born 1914) May 1 – T. M. Aluko, Nigerian writer (born 1918) May 3 Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Moroccan philosopher and writer (born 1935) Peter O'Donnell, English novelist (born 1920) May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, Vietnamese poet and playwright (born 1922) May 7 Rane Arroyo, American poet (cerebral hemorrhage, born 1954) Anders Buraas, Norwegian journalist (born 1915) May 12 – Allan Manings, American television writer (born 1924) May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet (born 1930) June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (born 1933) June 18 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922) June 19 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, critic and activist (born 1938) July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, English novelist (born 1932) July 4 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (born 1927) July 9 – Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist and short story writer (born 1916) July 12 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (born 1939) July 20 – Iris Gower, Welsh novelist (born 1939) August 6 – Tony Judt, English historian (born 1948) August 9 – Juan Marichal, Spanish historian (born 1922) August 10 – Marie de Garis, Guernsey ethnographer and philologist (born 1910) August 12 – Laurence Gardner, English writer (born 1943) August 13 – Patrick Cauvin, French novelist (born 1932) August 14 – Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (born 1922) August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve, Indian poet (born 1926) August 17 Sir Frank Kermode, Manx-born literary critic (born 1919) Ludvík Kundera, Czech writer and translator (born 1920) Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (born 1920) August 18 – Efraim Sevela, Russian writer and screenwriter (born 1928) August 20 – David J. Weber, American historian and author (born 1940) August 21 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentine writer (born 1941) August 27 George Hitchcock, American poet (born 1914) Ravindra Kelekar, Indian author and poet (born 1925) August 29 – A. C. Baantjer, Dutch author (born 1923) August 31 – Vance Bourjaily, American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1922) September 3 – Micky Burn, English writer and poet (born 1912) September 5 Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (born 1905) Lewis Nkosi, South African writer (born 1936) September 7 – Barbara Holland, American author (born 1933) September 10 – Edwin Charles Tubb, English science fiction author (born 1919) September 11 – Fathi Osman, Egyptian author (born 1928)