The Writer’s News
The Writer’s News keeps you informed about new developments in the writing world, including award and publication announcements, news from AWP and the field, and updates about important literary figures.
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July 9, 2015
James Tate, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Former AWP Board Member, Has Died
AWP regrets the loss of James Tate, masterful poet and former board member. Read more...
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June 25, 2015
Novelist and Short Story Writer James Salter Has Died
James Salter, whose scrupulous works The Washington Post essentially called “heart-breaking,” died last week in Sag Harbor, NY. Read more...
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May 21, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Franz Wright Has Died
Last Thursday, Franz Wright died in his Waltham, Massachusetts home after a long bout with lung cancer, a representative of Wright’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, reported. Read more...
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April 15, 2015
Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning Author of The Tin Drum, Has Died
Günter Grass, a German author whose works explored national guilt and atonement for Germany’s involvement in World War II, died on Monday, April 13. Read more...
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March 31, 2015
Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize-Winning Poet, Has Died
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011, has died at the age of eighty-three after a short illness, Anna Tillgren, a spokewoman for his publisher Bonniers, said. Read more...
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March 31, 2015
James McKinley, Former AWP President, Has Died
James C. McKinley, former AWP President, New Letters editor, teacher, fiction writer, and journalist, has passed away. Read more...
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March 19, 2015
Terry Pratchett, Much-Loved Fantasy Novelist, Has Died
Terry Pratchett, whose more than seventy award-winning fantasy novels captured the imaginations of readers worldwide, died on Thursday at his home near Salisbury, England. Read more...
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February 16, 2015
Philip Levine, a Poet Whose Works Captured Working-Class Life, Dies
Philip Levine, a former US Poet Laureate whose works portrayed the lives of working-class people—including his own—died on Saturday of pancreatic and liver cancer in Fresno, California. He was eighty-seven. Read more...
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January 8, 2015
Tomaž Šalamun has Died
Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun died on December 27. He was 73 and lived in Ljubljana. Read more...
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January 8, 2015
Miller Williams, Poet at Clinton’s Second Inauguration, has Died
Miller Williams, renowned Arkansas poet and editor, died of complications of Alzheimer’s on January 1 in a hospital in Fayetteville. Read more...
