RiP Barrie Dunstan
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Business and investment journalist Barrie Dunstan has died, aged 80. Starting his journalism career at the Argus in 1955, Dunstan then moved to the Age in 1958 and was promoted to finance...
RiP Melinda Beaumont
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Simon & Schuster Australia national account manager Melinda Beaumont has died, aged 46. The team at Simon & Schuster writes: 'It is with great sadness that we announce the passing...
RiP Harriet McKnight
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Writer and editor Harriet McKnight (1988–2018) has died. She grew up in Bermagui and spent several years studying music and performing around Melbourne before deciding to return to her love...
RiP Judith Rodríguez
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Australian poet Judith Rodríguez has died, aged 82. Rodríguez's first poetry appeared in the 1962 collection Four Poets, under the pseudonym Judith Green, alongside poetry by David Malouf, Rodney Hall and Don...
RiP Sandra Eterović
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Melbourne-based illustrator Sandra Eterović has died. Eterović graduated from the University of Melbourne with Honours in Art History in 1992 and was the recipient of the Dwight Final Examination Prize in...
RiP Stan Lee
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
American comic book writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee has died, aged 95. Born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City in 1922, Lee started working in publishing aged 17,...
RiP Eleanor Witcombe
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Australian screenwriter and playwright Eleanor Witcombe has died, aged 95. Witcombe's most well-known works were the book-to-screen adaptations of My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin, HarperCollins), The Getting of Wisdom (Henry Handel Richardson, Text)...
RiP Rose Zwi
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Writer Rose Zwi has died in Sydney, aged 90. Zwi was born in Mexico in 1928 to Jewish-Lithuanian parents but grew up in South Africa, where her family migrated when...
RiP Patricia O’Donnell
Monday, 22 October 2018
Literature patron Patricia O’Donnell has died, aged 72. O’Donnell was a significant patron of the arts in Melbourne, and was a founding donor of the Stella Prize. Originally a teacher...
RiP Mary Midgley
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
UK philosopher and writer Mary Midgley has died, aged 99. Midgley was a prominent moral philosopher, publishing over 15 books on science, ethics, the environment and animal rights. Midgley's first...
RiP David Lovell
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Publisher David Lovell has died, aged 74. Lovell was the founder and publisher of David Lovell Publishing (DLP), which published books based around the Catholic faith. A co-founder of the...
RiP Tony Catt
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Sales representative and agent Tony Catt has died, aged 90. Tony and his wife, Pauline, came to Australia from England as 'ten-pound poms' and settled in Hobart, where Catt worked...
RiP Albert Ullin
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
The Little Bookroom founder Albert Ullin has died, aged 88. Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1930, Ullin moved to Australia in 1939 before the outbreak of World War II. In...
RiP Peter Corris
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Sydney crime author Peter Corris has died, aged 76. Corris was the author of almost 90 books, including more than 40 in the Cliff Hardy series of crime novels. His...
RiP Mirka Mora
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Melbourne-based, French-born artist Mirka Mora has died, aged 90. Mora and her husband, Georges, arrived in Melbourne in 1951 after surviving the Holocaust, and became entrenched in the city's bohemian...
RiP V S Naipaul
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
Trinidad-born British writer V S Naipaul has died in London, aged 85. Naipaul was the author of over 30 books, beginning with the novel The Mystic Masseur in 1957. His breakout autobiographical...
RiP Candy Royalle
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Lebanese-Palestinian Australian poet and activist Candy Royalle has died, aged 37. Royalle was a spoken word artist and performer, and the author of two poetry collections, Heartbeats (self-published) and Love Spectacular...
RiP Anthony Bourdain
Thursday, 14 June 2018
US chef, writer and publisher Anthony Bourdain has died, aged 61. Bourdain was the author of several books, including his influential memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, which chronicled his...
RiP Philip Roth
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
US author Philip Roth has died, aged 85. Roth was the celebrated author of more than 30 books, from his National Book Award-winning debut, Goodbye, Columbus, to one of his most...
RiP Tom Wolfe
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
American author Tom Wolfe has died, aged 88. Wolfe was the author of 17 works of fiction and nonfiction, including his bestselling debut The Bonfire of the Vanities (Vintage), and...
RiP Beverly Farmer
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Australian writer and essayist Beverly Farmer has died, aged 77. Farmer, who won the Patrick White award—traditionally awarded to authors who ‘have made a significant but inadequately recognised contribution to...
RiP Anita Shreve
Thursday, 5 April 2018
American author Anita Shreve has died, aged 71. Shreve was the author of more than 18 books, including The Pilot's Wife, which sold more than three million copies after it...
RiP Noela Young
Thursday, 5 April 2018
Australian illustrator Noela Young has died, aged 88. Young began illustrating books in the 1950s, for writers including Hesba Brinsmead, Christobel Mattingley, Ruth Park, Patricia Wrightson, Emily Rodda and Margaret...
RiP Stephen Hawking
Thursday, 15 March 2018
English author, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has died, aged 76. Hawking was the author of more than 15 books, including the bestselling A Brief History of Time (Bantam),...
RiP Peter Temple
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Acclaimed crime author Peter Temple has died, aged 71. Temple was the first Australian writer to win the Gold Dagger, a major award from the UK's Crime Writers’ Association, for...
RiP Neil McDonald
Monday, 5 March 2018
Author and film historian Neil McDonald has died, aged 77. McDonald published several books, including 200 Shots (A&U), a pictorial account of Australians fighting on the Kokoda Track and Kokoda Front Line:...
RiP Beryl Fletcher
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
New Zealand feminist novelist Beryl Fletcher has died, aged 80. Fletcher grew up in what she described as ‘a socialist working-class family’ in Auckland, and graduated in 1979 from Waikato...
RiP Zelda D’Aprano
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Australian feminist activist and author Zelda D’Aprano has died, aged 90. D’Aprano was an avid campaigner for women’s rights and equal pay. A fierce labour unionist, she is known for...
RiP Muriel Rose Craddock
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Muriel Rose Craddock has died, aged 105. Craddock was a well-respected antiquarian bookseller who established Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller in the Melbourne CBD, and worked in the secondhand and...
RiP Ernest Hecht
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Founder and publisher of British publisher Souvenir Press Ernest Hecht has died, aged 88. As a child, Hecht arrived in England on the Kindertransport before the Second World War, as...
