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21Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

HG Carrillo, writer

Herman "HG" Carrillo ‑ an American writer and Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington, DC – contracted Covid-19 and died on April 20, 2020. In the 1990s, he began writing as "H. G. Carrillo", and he eventually adopted that identity in his private life as well, claiming to have been a Cuban immigrant who had left Cuba with his family at the age of 7. Carrillo wrote frequently about the Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, including in his only novel, Loosing My Espanish (2004). Carrillo kept his true identity hidden from even close acquaintances, including his husband, whom he married in 2015. Only after his death did the true details of his life become publicly known, after several members of his family ...

17Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura, writer

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura ‑ a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime ‑ He died on April 16 due to the Covid‑19. Luis Sepúlveda was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda was author of poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he spoke also English, French and Italian. In the late 1980s, he conquered the literary scene with his first novel, The Old Man Who Read Love Novels. Luis Sepúlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province, in 1949. His father, José Sepúlveda, was a militant of the Chilean Communist Party; and his mother, Irma Calfucura, was a nurse of Mapuche descent. After High S...

15Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Michael Arthur Gilkes, writer

Michael Arthur Gilkes a Caribbean literary critic, dramatist, poet, filmmaker and university lecturer died in London on 14 April 2020, aged 86, after contracting COVID-19. Gilkes was involved in theatre for more than 40 years, as a director, actor and playwright, winning the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992 and 2006, as well as the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002. He was also respected for his insight into and writings on the work of Wilson Harris. Gilkes was born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). His involvement with theatre began in his native Guyana when he was about 12 years old, working in school theatre, and he went on to become involved with the Theatre Guild of Guyana. Gilkes taught at a number of universities in the Caribbean, Canada and the...

5Apr

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Belgium, Noteworthy, Profiles

Marcel Moreau, writer

Marcel Moreau - a fancophone Belgian writer – died on 4 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Moreau was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage, in the Hainaut Province, into a working class environment in which there was, as he put it himself, a pure cultural void, a total absence of any cultural reference point”. He lost his father at the age of fifteen, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant’s assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir. In 1963 he published his first novel, Quintes, notably praised by Simone de Beauvoir. Considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic style, he was the author of a consider...

2Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Bernard Epin, writer

Bernard Epin ‑ a French writer, literary critic, and communist activist – died on 1 April 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. Born into a working-class family, Epin attended primary school in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He joined the French Communist Party in 1954 and the editorial team of L'École et la Nation, a communist magazine, in 1957. After his military service in Algeria, Epin became editorial secretary of the magazine. He also collaborated with the weekly Révolution, the monthly Regards, and L'Humanité. In addition to his criticism in children's literature, Epin wrote ten essays, including Les livres de vos enfants, parlons-en in 1985. This essay defended the idea of emancipation in children's reading...

26Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Romania

Paul Goma, writer

Paul Goma –a Romanian writer, known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989 – died due to Covid-19 on March 25, 2020. Forced into exile by the communist authorities, he became a political refugee and resided in France as a stateless person. After 2000, Goma has expressed opinions on World War II, the Holocaust in Romania and the Jews, claims which have led to widespread allegations of antisemitism. Goma was born to a Romanian family in Mana village, Orhei County, then in the Kingdom of Romania, now part of Moldova. In March 1944, the Goma family took refuge in Sibiu, Transylvania. In August 1944, finding themselves in danger of involuntary "repatriation" to the Soviet Union, they fled to the village of Buia, by the...