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November 15 in literary history
Literary history for November 15: 20 writers born, 10 writers who died and 2 literary events from 1511 to 2015. Born on this day: Fausto Brizzi, François Ozon, Tibor Fischer.
Writers born on November 15
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Fausto Brizzi | Italian screenwriter, producer and film director |
| 1967 | François Ozon | French film director and screenwriter (born 1967) |
| 1959 | Tibor Fischer | British writer (born 1959) |
| 1958 | Lewis Fitz-Gerald | Australian actor, screenwriter and television director |
| 1934 | Joanna Barnes | American actress and writer (1934–2022) |
| 1933 | Theodore Roszak (scholar) | American social historian, critic and writer |
| 1930 | J. G. Ballard | English writer (1930–2009) |
| 1926 | Thomas Williams (writer) | American writer |
| 1913 | Arthur Haulot | Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (died 2005) |
| 1897 | Sacheverell Sitwell | English writer |
| 1895 | Antoni Słonimski | Polish writer and journalist (1895–1976) |
| 1890 | Richmal Crompton | English short-story writer and novelist (1890–1969) |
| 1887 | Marianne Moore | American poet (1887–1972) |
| 1866 | Cornelia Sorabji | Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer (1866–1954) |
| 1862 | Gerhart Hauptmann | German author (1862–1946) |
| 1776 | José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi | Mexican writer and political journalist (1776–1827 |
| 1746 | Joseph Quesnel | French Canadian composer, poet and playwright (1746-1809) |
| 1741 | Johann Kaspar Lavater | Swiss poet (1741–1801) |
| 1607 | Madeleine de Scudéry | French writer (1607–1701) |
| 1511 | Johannes Secundus | 16th century Neo-Latin Dutch poet |
Writers who died on November 15
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Gisèle Prassinos | French writer (1920–2015) |
| 2005 | Adrian Rogers | American pastor and author (1931–2005) |
| 2005 | Arto Salminen | Finnish writer (born 1959) |
| 1994 | Elizabeth George Speare | American novelist (1908–1994) |
| 1981 | Khawar Rizvi | Pakistani poet (1938–1981) |
| 1954 | Lionel Barrymore | American actor, director, screenwriter (1878–1954) |
| 1942 | Annemarie Schwarzenbach | Swiss writer, journalist and photographer (1908–1942) |
| 1916 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Polish epic writer (1846–1916) |
| 1910 | Wilhelm Raabe | German novelist (1831-1910) |
| 1670 | John Amos Comenius | Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592–1670) |
Literary events on November 15
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1959 | Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas, by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, a crime later detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. |
| 1959 | Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas; the events became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre. |
Featured
Fausto Brizzi (1968) — Fausto Brizzi is an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
François Ozon (1967) — François Ozon is a French filmmaker, considered one of the most important contemporary French filmmakers, closely associated with the cinema du corps. His films are characterized by aesthetic beauty, sharp satirical humor and a free-wheeling view of human sexuality.
Tibor Fischer (1959) — Tibor Fischer is a British novelist and short-story writer. In 1993, he was selected by the literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers, while his 1992 novel Under the Frog was featured on the Booker Prize shortlist.
Sources & data
- Compiled from Wikipedia’s “On this day” selections (CC BY-SA 4.0), filtered for writers and literary events.