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Joan
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- Abrahams, Peter (1919-2017) - South African-born novelist, author of Mine Boy (1946). Considered to be the first author to bring the reality of South Africa's apartheid system to international attention. He was murdered at the age of 97.
- Adams, Richard (1920–2016) - English novelist, author of Watership Down, Shardik and The Plague Dogs.
- Aguirre, Francisca (1930-2019) - Spanish poet who was awarded
the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award for Ithaca (1972) and the Premio Nacional de las
Letras Españolas in 2018.
- Aichinger, Ilse (1921-2016) - Austrian writer known for her
accounts of her persecution by the Nazis.
- Aiken, Joan (1924-2004) - English author of children's
novels, including The Wolves Of Willoughby
Chase.
- Alberto, Eliseo (1951-2011) - Cuban-born Mexican novelist who
was awarded the Premio Alfaguara de Novela for Caracol Beach (1998).
- Aldiss, Brian (1926-2017) - English writer of
science fiction novels and short stories; best known for the Helliconia trilogy, and the short story "Super-Toys
Last All Summer Long" which was the basis for the film A.I. Artificial
Intelligence (2001).
- Anthony, Evelyn (1926-2018) - Prolific British author who
wrote more than 50 novels, including The Tamarind Seed (1971), which was turned into a hit film in
1974.
- Arenas, Reinaldo (1943–1990) Cuban writer who
requested that his ashes were to be held until such a time when they could be scattered
in Cuban waters when the regime of Castro was no longer in power. His autobiography, Before Night Falls, was made
into a film in 2000.
- Ashbery, John (1927-2017) - American poet, awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry in 1976 for Self-portrait in a Convex
Mirror (1975).
- Asimov, Isaac (Айзек Азимов) (1920-1992) - Russian born American Science fiction
author; his best known work is the Foundation Series.
- Avery, Ellis (1972–2019) American writer, winner of two Stonewall Book Awards, one in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and one in 2013 for The Last Nude.
- Avery, Gillian (1926-2016) - British children's novelist, awarded the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972, for A Likely Lad.
- Ayala, Francisco (1906-2009) - Spanish writer, recipient of the Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas, the Miguel de Cervantes Prize and the Prince of Asturias Award.
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