1993 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, 89 (born 1914), Dutch poet
• June 19 – William Golding, 82 (born 1919), English novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
• June 22 – Jerry Estrin, 46 (born 1947 in poetry), American poet (Rome, A Mobile Home) and magazine editor (Vanishing Cab)
• August 28 – William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford
• September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 71, Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
• September 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (born 1901), Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic who lived in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
• October 27 – Peter Quennell, 88, English biographer, historian and poet
• October (exact date not known) – Gu Cheng, Chinese poet, by suicide