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January 22 in literary history
Literary history for January 22: 19 writers born and 12 writers who died from 1654 to 2018. Born on this day: Vladimir Oravsky, Jaan Kaplinski, Peter Beard.
Writers born on January 22
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Vladimir Oravsky | Swedish writer and film director |
| 1941 | Jaan Kaplinski | Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic (1941–2021) |
| 1938 | Peter Beard | American photographer and writer (1938–2020) |
| 1937 | Joseph Wambaugh | American writer and policeman (1937–2025) |
| 1922 | Howard Moss | American poet and dramatist |
| 1920 | Irving Kristol | American columnist, journalist, and writer (1920–2009) |
| 1916 | Harilal Upadhyay | Gujarati author (1916–1994) |
| 1913 | Henry Bauchau | Belgium psychoanalyst, writer (1913–2012) |
| 1906 | Robert E. Howard | American pulp fiction writer (1906–1936) |
| 1904 | Arkady Gaidar | Soviet children's writer (1904–1941) |
| 1899 | Martti Haavio | Finnish poet, folklorist and mythologist (1899–1973) |
| 1897 | Dilipkumar Roy | Bengali musician, singer, musicologist, novelist, poet, essayist and yogi |
| 1891 | Antonio Gramsci | Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937) |
| 1887 | Helen Hoyt | American poet |
| 1879 | Francis Picabia | French painter and writer (1879–1953) |
| 1849 | August Strindberg | Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912) |
| 1788 | Lord Byron | British poet (1788–1824) |
| 1729 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | German Enlightenment writer (1729–1781) |
| 1654 | Richard Blackmore | English poet and physician |
Writers who died on January 22
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Ursula K. Le Guin | American author (1929–2018) |
| 2015 | Margaret Bloy Graham | Canadian children's book author and illustrator |
| 2012 | Simon Marsden | English photographer and author |
| 2003 | Bill Mauldin | American editorial cartoonist (1921–2003) |
| 2000 | Craig Claiborne | American critic, journalist and author (1920–2000) |
| 2000 | Anne Hébert | Canadian author and poet (1916–2000) |
| 1993 | Kōbō Abe | Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor |
| 1991 | Robert Choquette | Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat |
| 1949 | William Thomas Walsh | American Catholic historian and author (1891–1949) |
| 1945 | Else Lasker-Schüler | German poet and playwright (1869–1945) |
| 1929 | R. C. Lehmann | English writer and politician (1856–1929) |
| 1906 | George Holyoake | English secularist writer (1817–1906) |
Featured
Vladimir Oravsky (1947) — Vladimir Oravsky is a Slovak-born Swedish author and film director.
Jaan Kaplinski (1941) — Jaan Kaplinski was an Estonian poet, philosopher, politician, and culture critic, known for his focus on global issues and support for left-wing/liberal thinking. He was influenced by Eastern philosophical schools.
Peter Beard (1938) — Peter Hill Beard was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer. He lived and worked in New York City, Montauk, Long Island and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.
Sources & data
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