1953 in Literature - Deaths

Deaths

  • April 4 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (born 1860)
  • April 6 - Idris Davies, poet (born 1905;abdominal cancer)
  • April 9 - C. E. M. Joad, philosopher (born 1891)
  • April 24 - Alfred Vierkandt, sociologist (born 1867)
  • June 5 - Moelona, Welsh-language novelist and translator (born 1877)
  • June 25 - Richard Jebb, journalist (born 1874)
  • July 6 - Julia de Burgos, poet (born 1914; pneumonia)
  • July 16 - Hilaire Belloc, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1870)
  • August 30 - Maurice Nicoll, psychologist (born 1884)
  • November 8 - John van Melle, South African author (born 1887)
  • November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author (born 1914; pneumonia)
  • November 27
    • Eugene O'Neill, playwright (born 1888)
    • T. F. Powys, novelist, brother of John Cowper Powys (born 1875)
  • November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet (born 1879)
  • date unknown
    • Gordon Hall Gerould, philologist (born 1877)
    • Alice Milligan, Irish nationalist poet (born 1865)
    • Eirik Vandvik, classicist and translator (born 1904)

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