Category : Dead Famous

Robert Nye was born on March 15, 1939, and died on July 2, 2016. He was an English poet and author. Robert Nye bestselling novel Falstaff, published in 1976, was described by Michael Ratcliffe (writing in The Times) as “one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade”, and went on to win ..

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Giuseppe Ferrara was born on July 15, 1932, in Castelfiorentino, near Florence and died on June 25, 2016. He was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Ferrara founded at the high school an innovative film club, which proposes and critically analyzes neo-realism movies; since then he showed a character of “novelty”, often considered as “subversive”. ..

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Elechi Amadi was born on May 12, 1934, and died on June 29, 2016. He was a Nigerian author of plays and novels that are generally about African village life, customs, beliefs and religious practices, as they were before contact with the Western world. He was best known for his 1966 first novel, The Concubine, ..

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