May LitBirthdays

May

May 1 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Judy Collins Ignazio Silone (Secondino Tranquilli) Helen Bamber	May 2 Satyajit Ray Ichiyo Higuchi (Higuchi Natsu) Kwon-taek Im May 2 is Holocaust Remembrance Day	May 3 Betty Comden Leslie Marmon Silko Yehuda Amichai
May 4 Rüdiger Nehberg Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Boris J. Kochanowsky	May 5 Thomas Boberg Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly) Soren Kierkegaard Tammy Wynette	May 6 George Clooney Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman Sujata Bhatt Sigmund Freud
May 7 William Dempsey Valgardson Volker Braun Rabindranath Tagore Robert Browning	May 8 Beth Henley Gary Snyder Sirkka Hämäläinen	May 9 Nada El-Hage Lucian Blaga
May 10 Nayantara Sahgal Olga Bancic	May 11 Andre Gregory John Michael Hayes Irving Berlin	May 12 Claribel Alegria Wu Wenjun Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky
May 13 Daphne du Maurier Clive Barnes Stephen Colbert	May 14 Eoin Colfer Sofia Carmina Coppola Che Guevara Luis Llorens Torres	May 15 L. Frank Baum Katherine Anne Porter Jakucho Setouchi

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May 16 Olga Berggolts Studs Terkel	May 17 Jien (Jichin-daikasho) Dennis Potter	May 18 Tina Fey Omar Khayyam
May 19 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) Elena Poniatowska Lorraine Hansberry	May 20 Sirivennela (Chembolu SeethaRama Sastry) Honoré de Balzac	May 21 (Liv) Marit Bergman Manly Wade Wellman
May 22 Hergé (Georges Remi) Betty Williams Bernie Taupin Arthur Conan Doyle	May 23 Carl Linnaeus Sebastian Cordero Walter Reisch Pär Lagerkvist	May 24 Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov Patti LaBelle Joseph Brodsky Bob Dylan
May 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Ludlum Naim Frashëri	May 26 Peggy Lee (Norma Egstrom) Frankie Manning Nobuhiro Watsuki	May 27 Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov John Cheever Rachel Carson Dashiell Hammett
May 28 Muriel Barbery Patrick White Ian Fleming	May 29 Leah Goldberg (לאה גולדברג; ) G.K. Chesterton Abdul Rahman Munif ( عبد الرحمن منيف‎)	May 30 Vizma Belševica Agnes Varda
May 31 Svetlana Alexievich Judith Wright Walt Whitman

December LitBirthdays

December

December 1 Richard Pryor Woody Allen Candace Bushnell Rex Stout	December 2 Ann Patchett Botho Strauss Elizabeth Berg Jüri Reinvere	December 3 Alaíde Foppa de Solórzano Joseph Conrad Boris A. Novak Jean-Luc Godard
December 4 Rainer Maria Rilke Wen Shaoxian (溫紹賢) Frances Power Cobbe	December 5 Joan Didion Walt Disney Rose Wilder Lane	December 6 Tomson Highway Eve Curie Labouisse Ira Gershwin
December 7 Willa Cather Noam Chomsky Dom Joseph Pothier Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi [عبدالرحمن صوفی]	December 8 Delmore Schwartz Horace	December 9 Grace Hopper Edoardo Sanguineti Avraham B. Yehoshua
December 10 Emily Dickinson Maria Benitez	December 11 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Harriet Stratemeyer Adams Subramanya Bharathi	December 12 Robert Lepage Christian Metz Gustave Flaubert
December 13 James Wright Heinrich Heine	December 14 Tove Ditlevsen Lucrecia Martel	December 15 Donald Goines Betty Smith Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof
December 16 Barbara Smith Noel Coward Edward Ruscha Benny Andersson	December 17 Es’kia Mphahlele William Safire John Greenleaf Whittier	December 18 Alfred Bester Hal Kanter
December 19 Gisèle Freund Su Tung-p’o [Su Shi]	December 20 Väinö Linna Kate Atkinson Nalo Hopkinson	December 21 Ivan Blatný Heinrich Boll
December 22 Giacomo Puccini Eduard Uspensky Kenneth Rexroth	December 23 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa C.Y. (Chin Yang) Lee (黎錦揚; Lí Jǐnyáng)	December 24 Mary Higgins Clark Stephenie Meyer Mark Millar
December 25 Sheila Heti Rod Serling Carlos Castaneda	December 26 Narendra Prasad Alejo Carpentier David Sedaris	December 27 Kevin Patterson Mirza Ghalib Louis Bromfield
December 28 Liu Xiaobo Shen Congwen (Shen Ts’ung-wen) 沈從文 Mortimer J. Adler	December 29 William Gaddis Gilbert Adair	December 30 Sophie Ward Gabriel Krauze Joseph Rudyard Kipling Julia Briggs Alfredo Bracchi
December 31 Siné (Maurice Sinet) Machi Tawara (俵 万智 Tawara Machi) Ronnie del Carmen Odetta Holmes Gordon

December LitBirthdays

December LitBirthdays

December 1 Richard Pryor Woody Allen Candace Bushnell Rex Stout	December 2 Ann Patchett Botho Strauss Elizabeth Berg Jüri Reinvere	December 3 Alaíde Foppa de Solórzano Joseph Conrad Boris A. Novak Jean-Luc Godard
December 4 Rainer Maria Rilke Wen Shaoxian (溫紹賢) Frances Power Cobbe	December 5 Joan Didion Walt Disney Rose Wilder Lane	December 6 Tomson Highway Eve Curie Labouisse Ira Gershwin
December 7 Willa Cather Noam Chomsky Dom Joseph Pothier Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi [عبدالرحمن صوفی]	December 8 Delmore Schwartz Horace	December 9 Grace Hopper Edoardo Sanguineti Avraham B. Yehoshua
December 10 Emily Dickinson Maria Benitez	December 11 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Harriet Stratemeyer Adams Subramanya Bharathi	December 12 Robert Lepage Christian Metz Gustave Flaubert
December 13 James Wright Heinrich Heine	December 14 Tove Ditlevsen Lucrecia Martel	December 15 Donald Goines Betty Smith Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof
December 16 Barbara Smith Noel Coward Edward Ruscha Benny Andersson	December 17 Es’kia Mphahlele William Safire John Greenleaf Whittier	December 18 Alfred Bester Hal Kanter
December 19 Gisèle Freund Su Tung-p’o [Su Shi]	December 20 Väinö Linna Kate Atkinson Nalo Hopkinson	December 21 Ivan Blatný Heinrich Boll
December 22 Giacomo Puccini Eduard Uspensky Kenneth Rexroth	December 23 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa C.Y. (Chin Yang) Lee (黎錦揚; Lí Jǐnyáng)	December 24 Mary Higgins Clark Stephenie Meyer Mark Millar
December 25 Sheila Heti Rod Serling Carlos Castaneda	December 26 Narendra Prasad Alejo Carpentier David Sedaris	December 27 Kevin Patterson Mirza Ghalib Louis Bromfield
December 28 Liu Xiaobo Shen Congwen (Shen Ts’ung-wen) 沈從文 Mortimer J. Adler	December 29 William Gaddis Gilbert Adair	December 30 Sophie Ward Gabriel Krauze Joseph Rudyard Kipling Julia Briggs Alfredo Bracchi
December 31 Siné (Maurice Sinet) Machi Tawara (俵 万智 Tawara Machi) Ronnie del Carmen Odetta Holmes Gordon

November LitBirthdays

November 1 Kamaria Muntu (Tracey De Sandra Martin) Hermann Broch	November 2 Odysseas Elytis Jorge de Sena	November 3 Kath Walker / Oodgeroo Noonuccal ( Jesús Blasco Lulu (Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie)
November 4 Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Rodrigo Rey Rosa Will Rogers Walter Cronkite	November 5 Uzodinma Iweala Rana Dasgupta Philip V. Francis Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers)	November 6 Karin Fossum Laure Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantès
November 7 Joni Mitchell Albert Camus Antonio Skármeta	November 8 Kazuo Ishiguro Richard Curtis Teofilo Folengo (Merlino Coccajo)	November 9 Danielle Trussoni Ivan Turgenev Benjamin Banneker
November 10 Holly Black Aka Morchiladze Timothy Miles Rice	November 11 Alicia Ostriker Douglas Rogers Carlos Fuentes	November 12 Ivo Urbančič Neil Young Bahá’u’lláh
November 13 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dacia Maraini Nico Scheepmaker	November 14 Karen Armstrong René de Clercq	November 15 Marianne Moore Day of the Imprisoned Writer
November 16 Chinua Achebe Arvid Järnefelt	November 17 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Steven E. de Souza	November 18 Margaret Atwood Frances Marion Wilma Pearl Mankiller
November 19 Zygmunt Bauman Yuri Knorozov	November 20 Nadine Gordimer Sheema Kalbasi Alistair Cooke	November 21 Tina Brown (Christina Hambley Brown) Isaac Bashevis Singer ( יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער ) Qian Zhongshu
November 22 Gerhard Steidl Marjane Satrapi (مرجان ساتراپی) George Eliot (Mary Ann [Marian] Evans) Viktor Pelevin	November 23 Ishmael Beah Nirad C. Chaudhuri	November 24 Yoshiko Uchida Stephen Merchant Dale Carnegie
November 25 Alexis Wright Lope de Vega (Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio)	November 26 Uladzimir Karatkevich (Уладзімір Караткевіч) Eugène Ionesco Charles M. Schulz	November 27 Han Kang Harivansh Rai Bachchan Rao Pingru 饶平如 Twista (Carl Terrell Mitchell)
November 28 Dervla Murphy Linda Lucero Fragua Kinoko Nasu 奈須 きのこ Alfonso Cuaron (Orozco) Jon Stewart	November 29 George Szirtes Carlo Levi	November 30 Lucy Maud Montgomery David Mamet Gordon Parks Chris Claremont Marina Abramović