Humberto Ak'ab'al, Guatemalan poet, Died at 66

Humberto Ak'ab'al also Ak'abal or Akabal wasborn in 1952 and died on January 28, 2019.

He was a K'iche' Maya poet from Guatemala.

He wrote in his local dialect of K'iche', and afterward made an interpretation of his verse into Spanish.

Along with the interpretations of his works into various dialects and worldwide acknowledgment, Ak'ab'al is viewed as "the most prestigious Maya Ki'che' writer" on the planet.

Humberto Ak'ab'al passed away at 66 years old.

Emmanuel Hocquard, French poet, Died at 78

Emmanuel Hocquard was born on April 11, 1940, and died on January 27, 2019. He was a French poet.

Hocquard experienced childhood in Tangier, Morocco.

Hocquard filled in as the supervisor of the little press Orange Export Ltd. what's more, with Claude Royet-Journoud, altered two treasurys of new American artists, 21+1: Poètes américains ď aujourďhui (with a comparing English volume, 21+1 American Poets Today) and 49+1.

In 1989, he established and coordinated "Un agency sur l'Atlantique", an affiliation cultivating relations among French and American writers.

Other than verse, Hocquard has composed papers, a novel, and interpreted American and Portuguese writers including Charles Reznikoff, Michael Palmer, Paul Auster, Benjamin Hollander, Antonio Cisneros, and Fernando Pessoa.

 With the craftsman Alexandre Delay, he made a video film, Le Voyage à Reykjavik.

Emmanuel Hocquard passed away at 78 years old.

Russell Baker, American writer, Died at 93

Russell Wayne Baker was born on August 14, 1925 and died on  January 21, 2019.

He was an American columnist, storyteller, essayist of Pulitzer Prize-winning humorous critique and self-basic exposition, and writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning life account Growing Up (1982).

Baker cook was a feature writer for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and facilitated the PBS show Masterpiece Theater from 1992 to 2004.

The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 expressed: "Dough puncher, because of his particular endowment of treating genuine, even lamentable occasions and patterns with delicate amusingness, has turned into an American establishment.

Russell Wayne Baker passed away at 93 years old.

Krishna Sobti, Indian author, Died at 93

Krishna Sobti was born on  February 18, 1925 and died on January 25, 2019.
She  was a Hindi fiction writer and essayist.

She  won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi.

Sobti earned the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature, in 2017.

She was best known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani, a proud depiction of a wedded lady's sexuality.

Sobti was likewise the beneficiary of the first Katha Chudamani Award, in 1999, for Lifetime Literary Achievement, aside from winning the Shiromani Award in 1981, Hindi Academy Award in 1982, Shalaka Award of the Hindi Academy Delhi and in 2008, her novel Samay Sargam was chosen for Vyas Samman, initiated by the K. K. Birla Foundation.

Considered the grande woman of Hindi writing, Krishna Sobti was conceived in Gujrat, Punjab, presently in Pakistan; she likewise composes under the name Hashmat and has distributed Hum Hashmat, a gathering of pen pictures of scholars and companions.

Sobti's different books are Daar Se Bichchuri, Surajmukhi Andhere Ke, Yaaron Ke Yaar, Zindaginama. A portion of her outstanding short stories are Nafisa, Sikka Badal gaya, Badalom ke ghere.

Sobti Eka Sohabata incorporates her major chosen works.

Some of her works are presently accessible in English and Urdu.

During 2005, Dil-o-Danish, converted into The Heart Has Its Reasons in English by Reema Anand and Meenakshi Swami of Katha Books, won the Crossword Award in the Indian Language Fiction
Translation classification.

Krishna Sobti passed away at 93 years old.

Diana Athill, British literary editor & novelist, Died at 101

Diana Athill was born on December 21, 1917 and died on  January 24, 2019.

She was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist.

She worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.

As indicated by writer Mick Brown, "She properties her departure from tradition to her first love, Tony Irvine, a RAF pilot with whom she began to look all starry eyed at 15 years old, and who was honored, she says, 'with an extremely open way to deal with life.'" The disappointment of her association with Irvine (alluded to as Paul in Instead of a Letter), her "extraordinary love", "scourged" numerous years: "My undertakings from that point onward, I kept them paltry in the event that I could. I was terrified of power, since I realized I would have been hurt." Irvine did battle in Egypt, and in the long run quit answering to Athill's letters, at that point two years after the fact asked for to end their engagement.

At age 43, Athill endured a miscarriage.
Diana Athill considered herself a "sucker for abused nonnatives", a tendency she described as an "entertaining crimp" in her maternal sense: "I never especially needed kids, however it turned out in loving faltering ducks.

"One sweetheart, the Egyptian creator Waguih Ghali, a burdensome, submitted suicide in her level.

Her most astounding issue, about which she later composed a book, was "a momentary, and particularly odd" association with Hakim Jamal, an American Black radical who attested he was God and was a cousin of Malcolm X. Jamal's other darling Gale Benson, was killed by Trinidadian Black Power pioneer Michael X. Jamal was slaughtered by others a year later.

Athill's record of these occasions was distributed in 1993 as Make Believe: A True Story.

Diana Athill's longest relationship was with the Jamaican writer Barry Reckord.

The undertaking kept going eight years, yet he shared her level for forty.
Athill portrayed it as a "withdrew" kind of marriage.

Athill moved into a level in a north London living arrangement for the "dynamic old" toward the finish of 2009, saying about this choice: "Nearly without a moment's delay on landing in the home I realized that it was going to suit me. Also, beyond any doubt enough, it does.

An actual existence free of stresses in a cozy little nest...."She turned 100 in December 2017.
Diana Athill passed awat at 101 years old.

Lin Ching-hsuan, Taiwanese writer, Died at 65

Lin Ching-hsuan was born on February 26, 1953 and died on January 23, 2019.

He was a Taiwanese essayist.

 

He won numerous prizes. He used several pen names including Qin Qing (秦情), Lin Li (林漓), Lin Da-bei (林大悲), among others.’ 

His composition depends on things occurred in every day life, and composed with an extremely delicate account. 

Ching-hsuan was great at watching subtleties throughout everyday life and abstracting those perceptions into ideas. 

With Buddhist development, he applies Zen intelligence to his elucidation of life, and along these lines, he manages the perusers to mull over and acquire profound sublimation in their life.

 

Furthermore, there is no confounded dialect and talk in Lin's writing.

 

The effortlessness and promotion of his works enable normal individuals to comprehend his ideas effectively.

Ching-hsuan passed away at 65 years old.

Barthélémy Kotchy, Ivorian writer and politician, Died at 84

Barthélémy Kotchy or Barthélémy Kotchy-N'Guessan was born in 1934 and died on January 19, 2019.

He was an Ivorian writer and politician.

 

He was one of the founders of the Ivorian Popular Front and he is the president of ASCAD from 2008.

Kotchy  died in Abidjan passed away 84 years old.

Atin Bandyopadhyay, Bangladeshi writer, Died at 85

Atin Bandyopadhyay or Atin was born in 1934, in Dhaka, Bangladesh and died on January 19, 2019.

 

He was a writer of Bengali literature.

Bandyopadhyay spent his youth in a joint family set-up in the then East Bengal of unified India and concentrated in Sonar Gaon Panam School. After the Partition, relocated to India. 

Bandyopadhyay earned his college degree in business in 1956 and in this way earned an instructor's preparation degree, all from the University of Calcutta. 

The main story of the creator was distributed in the magazine Abasar of Berhampore. 

Bandyopadhyay has written numerous works from that point forward, yet his showstopper is a four-section quadruplicate on the Partition: Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje,"Manusher Gharbari" Aloukik Jalajan and Ishwarer Bagan. 

Another renowned author of Bengal, Syed Mustafa Siraj has looked at Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje, with Greek disasters and furthermore discovered it tuned with the center soul with the Bengali writing like Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Pather Panchali.

 

Atin Bandyopadhyay passed away at 85 years old.

Padraic Fiacc, Irish poet, Died at 94

Padraic Fiacc was born Patrick Joseph O'Connor on April 15, 1924, in Belfast and died on January 21, 2019, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He was an Irish poet, and member of Aosdána, the exclusive Irish Arts Academy.

 

His parents were Bernard and Annie (née McGarry) O'Connor, Fiacc's father was a barman who left for the United States when Fiacc was very young.

He lived with his maternal grandparents who had recently moved to the Markets area of South Belfast after being burned out of their home in Lisburn in which all their furniture was burned by anti-Catholic rioters.

Padraic Fiacc family emigrated to the United States in the late 1920s and he raised in New York City.

Padraic Fiacc passed away at 94 years old.

Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist and publisher, Died at 61

Themos Anastasiadis was conceived on January 6, 1958, and kicked the bucket on January 22, 2019.

He was a Greek writer. 

 

He had worked for different papers, essentially Kathimerini and To Vima and Eleftherotypia.

 

Amid 2005, close by TV columnist Makis Triantafyllopoulos, Themos Anastasiadis made another Sunday paper called Proto Thema. 

 

He was additionally the editorial manager of the games paper Protathlitis (Champion); a paper which bolsters Olympiacos, a group which he upheld. 

Other than working in print news coverage, Anastasiades had worked additionally on TV. From 2001 to February 2006 he was the host of "Ola", a week after week humor appear on Alpha TV. 

 

On this show, he used to welcome different identities from Greek showbiz and feature the numerous clever minutes from the Greek TV.

In March 2006, he moved toward becoming the host of the show "OlaXXL" on ANT1 TV. Starting at 2008, the show proceeds with an alternate name every year except containing "Ola".

 

Themos Anastasiadis kicked the bucket on 22 January 2019 in the wake of battling with malignant growth. 

 

He passed away at 61 years of age.

Francine du Plessix Gray, Polish-born American author and critic, Died at 88

Francine du Plessix Gray was born on September 25, 1930, in Warsaw, Poland, and died on January 13, 2019.

She was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic.

She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family (French father and Russian mother) influenced her.

Her father, then a sub-lieutenant in the Free French Air Force died in 1940, shot down near Gibraltar.

Her mother, Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix, (1906–1991) had come to France as a refugee from Bolshevik Russia, and ended an engagement to Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1928, before marrying du Plessix.

During her widowhood, she once again became a refugee, escaping occupied France via Lisbon to New York in 1940 or 1941 with Francine and Alexander Liberman (1912–1999).

In 1942, she married Liberman, another White Russian émigré, whom she had known in Paris as a child.

(During his love affair with Liberman's mother, her uncle, Alexandre Yacovleff, had recruited Tatiana to keep the boy occupied.)

He was a noted artist and later a longtime editorial director of Vogue magazine and then of Condé Nast Publications. On 23 April 1957, she married the painter Cleve Gray and until his death they lived together in Connecticut.

The couple had two sons.

Francine du Plessix Gray died on January 13, 2019 in Manhattan.

Ido Abram, Indonesian-born Dutch writer and educator, Died at 78

Isidoor Bert Hans "Ido" Abram was born in 1940, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies and died on January 14, 2019.

He was a teacher and essayist on the idea of Jewishness.

As a little youngster in World War II Abram was an internee in Japanese camps.

After freedom, his family came back to the Netherlands.

He considered science and theory at the University of Amsterdam.

Abram was an educator of the instructional method (hypothesis of instructing) at that organization and has distributed on points with respect to Jewish culture and personality, multicultural training and "Training after Auschwitz".

Abram has been the principal European educator for "Holocaust Education" since 1990.

Abram has built up a model known as the 'five-cut pie diagram' to show the distinctive methods for being Jewish.

He says there are five perspectives that here and there influence the life of each Jew.

These are "religion and custom", "the tie with Israel and Zionism", '"war abuse and survival", "individual history" and the "trade among Jewish and Dutch societies". Exactly how vigorously these diverse angles burden every individual exclusively relies upon the place and time in which one lives.

Over the span of an individual's life the different angles may change in significance.

Ido Abram passed away at 78 years old.

Bai Hua, Chinese novelist, playwright and poet, Died at 88

Bai Hua was born Chen Youhua on November 20, 1930, in Xinyang, Henan and died on January 15, 2019.

He was a Chinese novelist, playwright and poet.

Bai earned national fame for his plays based on uncompromising historical criticism.

Hua began publishing poems at the age of fifteen under his current name.
Most them featuring in the Southern Henan Daily.

Hua worked in a Shanghai film studio in the early 1960s, and produced several influential dramas and films in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Bitter Love his book was turned in a flim called The Sun and the People in 1980.

Hua resided in retirement in Shanghai with his wife.

Hua most recent poem was published in 2009.

Bai Hua passed away at 88 years old.

Batton Lash, Comic book writer & artist, Died at 65

Batton Lash was born on October 29, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, and died on January 12, 2019.

 

He was an American comics creator.

 

He came to prominence as part of the 1990s self-publishing boom.

 

Lash was best known for the series Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre (aka Supernatural 

Law), a comedic series about law partners specializing in cases dealing with archetypes from the horror genre, which ran as a strip in The National Law Journal, and as a stand-alone series of comic books and graphic novels. 

He was a student of cartooning and graphic arts at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.

 

Batton Lash gained several awards for his work, including an Inkpot Award, an Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award, an Eisner Award, and nominations for two Harvey Awards. 

Batton Lash passed away at 65 years old from brain cancer.

Aline Kiner, French journalist & writer Died at 59

Aline Kiner was born on 18 June 1959 and died on  January 7, 2019.

She was a French journalist and novelist.

She started as a journalist for Sciences et Avenir in 1995 and was then named editor-in-chief of special issues in 2008.

Kiner also worked with the French documentary series Thalassa and for the French newspaper Libération.

Kiner authored four books and novels, including La nuit des béguines, which won the Prix Culture et Bibliothèques pour tous in 2018. 

Aline Kiner passed away at 59 years old.

Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director, Died at 67

Lenin Rajendran was born in Trivandrum, Kerala, India and died on January 14, 2019.

He was an Indian film director and screenwriter.

He worked in Malayalam cinema. Rajendran served as the Kerala State Film Development Corporation from 2016 to January 2019.

When he started out his film-making career, he was an assistant to director P. A. Backer, Rajendran made his directorial debut with Venal (1982).

Rajendran's first film on to his last one, Edavappathy (2016), Rajendran has been consistent with the quality of his films, not surrendering to market forces even while using the form and stars of popular cinema.

Rajendran's other films are Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla (1983), Puravrutham (1988), and Vachanam (1989).

Lenin Rajendran passed away at 67 years old due to liver ailments at Appolo Hospital Chennai.

Bea Vianen, Surinamese writer, Died at 83

Beatrice Sylvia Vianen was born on November 6, 1935, in Paramaribo and died on January 2019.

 

She was a Surinamese writer.

 

She goes by the name Bea Vianen.

Bea Vianen had both African and Indian ancestry and spent time in the Netherlands starting in 1957.

 

Bea Vianen mostly wrote in Dutch, but occasionally in Sranan Tongo.

 

Vianen's first novel was Sarnami, Hai or "Surinam I am" in 1969.

 

Vianen was an admirer of the Trinidadian novelist V. S. Naipaul.

Bea Vianen passed away at 83 years old.

Jocelyne Saab, Lebanese journalist and film director, Died at 70

Jocelyne Saab was born on April 30, 1948 in Beirut, Lebanon, and died on January 7, 2019.

She was a journalist and film director from Lebanon.

Sabb is recognized as one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema and "one of the country's most daring filmmakers".

Following the civil war, she continued to make a number of films, in both documentary and fiction.

Jocelyne Saab passed at 70 years old.

Pinaki Thakur, Bengali poet, Died at 59

Pinaki Thakur was born on April 21, 1959 and died on January 3, 2019.

He was a Bengali poet Pinaki Thakur studied Engineering but passionate in Bengali poetry from student life and wrote poems in various little magazines.

Thakur's poetry was first published in Ushinar magazine in 1974.

Thakur's poetry was published in Desh magazine, in 1979.

Thakur became popular in Bengali literary field after publishing his first book Ekdin Ashoriri.

He was conferred the Ananda Puraskar in 2012 for his book Chumbaner Kkhato. Thakur was also given by Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi Puraskar and Krittibas Purashkar.

He was born at Bansberia, Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Thakur was suffering in Cerebral Malaria since December 2018 and died on 3 January 2019 in SSKM Hospital, Kolkata.

Pinaki Thakur passed away at 59 years old.

Emil Brumaru, Romanian writer and poet, Died at 80

Emil Brumaru was born on December 25, 1938, in Bahmutea, Bessarabia and died on January 5, 2019.

He was a Romanian writer and poet.

During 1975, Brumaru studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Iași before turning to poetry.

Emil Brumaru passed away at 80 years old.