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  • Aug 26 2008:

    Obituary: Influential art historian noted for his perspicacity and scholarly approach

  • Aug 22 2008:

    Obituary: Diplomat, chronicler of the British in the Arab world - and poet

  • Aug 22 2008:

    Obituary: Italian author whose wartime memoir was a bestseller

  • Aug 20 2008:

    Obituary: Backbench social reformer and writer with a Freudian view of the world

  • Aug 20 2008:

    Obituary: Keeper of her family's links to the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th century

  • Aug 14 2008:

    Obituary: Muted Soviet novelist who blossomed into a champion of liberalism

  • Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish Gallery (8 pictures), Aug 11 2008: The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, a major figure in Arab literature and a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, has died aged 67, after complications following heart surgery in the US
  • Mahmoud Darwish Aug 11 2008:

    Obituary: Poet, author and politician who helped to forge a Palestinian consciousness after the six-day war in 1967

  • Playwright Simon Gray in 2007 Aug 7 2008:

    Obituary: Playwright, diarist and novelist who bridged the gulf between intellectual and popular drama

  • Simon Gray, playwright Aug 7 2008:

    The celebrated author of more than 30 plays for stage and TV, including Quartermaine's Terms and Melons, as well as five novels, has died

  • Aug 7 2008:

    Obituary: Dedicated keeper of the literary legacy of F Scott Fitzgerald

  • Aug 6 2008:

    Obituary: Witty and inventive children's book illustrator famed for her Narnia drawings

  • Aug 6 2008:

    Obituary: Psychiatrist who wrote a frank book about his battle with Parkinson's

  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn Aug 4 2008:

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn's brought the pain and suffering of Stalin's Russia to world attention

  • Aug 4 2008:

    Obituary: Author whose brilliant memoir evoked life in pre-communist China

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