October 10 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on October 10

Born	Writer	Known as
1989	Emer Kenny	British actress and screenwriter
1969	Dilsa Demirbag Sten	Kurdish-Swedish author and journalist
1967	Jonathan Littell	American-French writer
1959	Michael Cobley	British writer
1950	Nora Roberts	American author (born 1950)
1946	Anne Mather	British novelist (born 1936)
1943	Frederick Barthelme	American minimalist novelist and short story writer
1938	Lily Tuck	American novelist and short story writer (born 1938)
1930	Harold Pinter	English playwright (1930–2008)
1929	Bernard Mayes	British broadcaster, academic and writer (1929–2014)
1928	Sheila Walsh (novelist)	English novelist (1928–2009)
1924	James Clavell	British writer and filmmaker (1921–1994)
1924	Ed Wood	American filmmaker, actor and author (1924–1978)
1921	James Clavell	British writer and filmmaker (1921–1994)
1913	Claude Simon	French novelist (1913–2005)
1912	Ram Vilas Sharma	Indian academic and writer (1912–2000)
1911	Clare Hollingworth	English journalist and author (1911–2017)
1908	Mercè Rodoreda	Catalan novelist and poet
1906	R. K. Narayan	Indian writer (1906–2001)
1902	Shivaram Karanth	Indian Kannada writer (1902-1997)
1884	Nikolai Klyuev	Russian poet (1884–1937)
1870	Louise Mack	Australian poet, journalist and novelist (1870–1935)
1834	Aleksis Kivi	National writer of Finland (1834–1872)

Writers who died on October 10

Died	Writer	Known as
2024	Fleur Adcock	New Zealand poet (1934–2024)
2014	Damiana Eugenio	Filipino writer (1921–2014)
2014	Pavel Landovský	Czech actor, playwright, and director (1936–2014)
2013	Jay Conrad Levinson	American business writer (1933–2013)
2004	Maurice Shadbolt	New Zealand writer (1932–2004)
1990	Nikolaos Pavlopoulos	Greek sculptor and writer
1979	Christopher Evans (computer scientist)	British computer scientist and author (1931–1979)
1966	Louise Thuliez	French schoolteacher, resistance fighter and author (1881–1966)
1927	August Kitzberg	Estonian writer
1922	Andreas Karkavitsas	Greek writer
1875	Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy	Russian poet, novelist, and playwright
1827	Ugo Foscolo	Italian writer, revolutionary and poet (1778–1827)
1795	Francesco Antonio Zaccaria	Italian theologian, historian and writer
1691	Isaac de Benserade	Isaac de Benserade, French author and poet (born 1613)

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Emer Kenny (1989) — Emer Kenny is a British actress and screenwriter. She is best known for playing Zsa Zsa Carter in EastEnders and its spin-off EastEnders: E20, Danielle Reeves in Pramface and Penelope "Bunty" Windermere in Father Brown.

Dilsa Demirbag Sten (1969) — Dilşa Demirbağ-Sten is a Kurdish-Swedish author and journalist. She is the Secretary General of Berättarministeriet, a foundation she co-founded together with Robert Weil and Sven Hagströmer in 2011.

Jonathan Littell (1967) — Jonathan Littell is an American-born writer living in Barcelona. His first novel written in French, The Kindly Ones, won two major French awards, i.e. the Prix Goncourt and the Prix de l'Académie française.

October 10 in literary history

Writers born on October 10

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