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*[[Assia Djebar]] – ''[[Far from Medina]] (Loin de Médine)''
*[[Stephen R. Donaldson]]
**''[[The Real Story (novel)|The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story]]''
**''[[Forbidden Knowledge|The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge]]''
*[[Roddy Doyle]] – ''[[The Van (novel)|The Van]]''
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*[[Albert Hourani]] – ''[[A History of the Arab Peoples]]''
*[[Anne Hugon]] – ''[[The Exploration of Africa: From Cairo to the Cape]]''
*[[Pauline Kael]] – ''[[Movie Love]]''
*[[Alan Macfarlane]] – ''The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616–1683''
*[[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] – ''[[Sex (book)|Sex]]''
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==Births==
*[[January 23]] – [[Jonaxx|Jonahmae Panen Pacala]] (''known as'' Jonaxx), Filipino [[Wattpad]] author
*[[April 1]] – [[Kat Zhang]], American young-adult and middle -grade fiction writer
*[[April 20]] – [[Marieke Lucas Rijneveld]], Dutch novelist and poet
*''unknown dates''
**[[Gabriel Bergmoser]], Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter
**[[Chibundu Onuzo]], Nigerian novelist
**[[Sally Rooney]], Irish fiction writer
 
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*[[January 23]] – [[Northrop Frye]], Canadian literary critic (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Aligarh Critical Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-XmaAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=A.A. Ansari|page=89}}</ref>
*[[January 29]] – [[Yasushi Inoue]], Japanese novelist (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[February 1]] – [[Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar]], Saudi Arabian writer, journalist and poet (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[February 16]] – [[Muhammad Sa'id al-Amudi]], Saudi Arabian journalist, literary critic and official. (born [[1905 in literature|1905]]) <ref>{{cite book |last1=Maghribi|first1=Muhammad Ali|title=Aʻlām al-Ḥijāz fī al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar lil-Hijrah|script-title=ar:أعلام الحجاز في القرن الرابع عشر والخامس عشر الهجري|trans-title=Eminents of Hejaz in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AH|date=1993|volume=4 |page=240|publisher=Tahama|location=Jedda|isbn=|edition=first |language=ar}}</ref>
*[[February 24]] – [[John Daly (radio and television personality)|John Daly]], American journalist and [[game show]] host (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[March 2]] – [[Mary Howard (novelist)|Mary Howard]] (Mary Mussi), English romance novelist (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[March 14]] – [[Margery Sharp]], English novelist and children's writer (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Clark Layman Bruccoli|author2=Gale Cengage|title=British Children's Writers Since 1960: First series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FMcUAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-9356-1|page=311}}</ref>
*[[March 22]] – [[Paul Engle]], American poet and novelist (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[April 3]] – [[Graham Greene]], English novelist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Diemert | first = Brian | title = Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s | publisher = McGill-Queen's University Press | location = Montreal | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780773566170 | page=3}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Max Frisch]], Swiss playwright and novelist (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Berwald | first = Olaf | title = A companion to the works of Max Frisch | publisher = Camden House | location = Rochester, New York | year = 2013 | isbn = 9781571134189 | page=6}}</ref>
*[[April 5]] – [[Eve Garnett]], English children's writer and illustrator (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])
*[[April 12]] – [[James Schuyler]], American poet (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Dante Milano]], Brazilian modernist poet (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
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*[[July 24]] – [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]], Polish-born Jewish-American novelist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Janet Hadda|title=Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1pxBtkICDMMC&pg=PA215|date=24 March 2003|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-18693-7|pages=215}}</ref>
*[[August 1]] – [[Yusuf Idris]], Egyptian writer (born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[August 13]] – [[John Sommerfield]], English communist writer (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[August 17]] – [[Terence Kilmartin]], Irish journalist and translator (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
*[[September 4]]
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*[[October 27]] – [[George Barker (poet)|George Barker]], English poet (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Frank Yerby]], African American historical novelist (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William L. Andrews|author2=Frances Smith Foster|author3=Trudier Harris|title=The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9XtCY7cijMC&pg=PA452|date=15 February 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-803175-8|pages=452}}</ref>
*[[December 5]] – [[Jack Trevor Story]], English novelist (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[December 11]] – [[Artur Lundkvist]], Swedish author (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite news | last = Kumm | first = Bjorn | title = Obituary: Artur Lundkvist | newspaper = [[The Independent]] | location = London | page = 13 | date = 12 Dec 1991 }}</ref>
* [[December 27]] – [[Hervé Guibert]], French writer and photographer (born [[1955 in literature|1955]])<ref>{{cite web|title= Herve Guibert, French Novelist, 36|work= [[New York Times]] |date=29 December 1991|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/29/obituaries/herve-guibert-french-novelist-36.html|accessdate=29 August 2010}}</ref>
*''Unknown date'' – [[Gogu Rădulescu]], Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
 
==Awards==
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