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Children and young people
- January 24 – Leon Kalustian, Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist (born 1908)
- February 27 – Alexandru Rosetti, Romanian linguist, editor and memoirist (burns, born 1895)
- March 12 – Rosamond Lehmann, English novelist (born 1901)
- May 4 – John Ormond, Welsh poet (born 1923)
- May 10 – Walker Percy, American novelist (born 1916)
- May 25 – Lucy M. Boston, English children's novelist (born 1892)
- July 15 – Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (born 1920)
- July 22 – Manuel Puig, Argentine novelist (heart attack, born 1932)[2]
- August 1 – Michael Glenny, British translator of Russian literature into English (born 1927)
- August 17 – Roderick Cook, English playwright (born 1932)
- August 25 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, playwright and broadcasting personality (born 1903)
- September 8 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer (born 1905)
- September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist and journalist (born 1907)
- September 27 – Ion Biberi, Romanian social scientist, novelist, and essayist (born 1904)
- September 30 – Patrick White, Australian novelist (born 1912)
- October 23 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (heart attack, born 1918)[3]
- November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, dramatist, and travel writer (born 1912)
- November 8 – Anya Seton, American genre novelist (born 1904)[4]
- November 23 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author (myelodysplastic syndrome, born 1916)[5]
- November 24 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and dramatist (born 1899)
- December 1 – Irma Chilton, Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (born 1930)
- December 7 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright (suicide, born 1943)[6]
- December 11 – David Turner, English dramatist (born 1927)
- December 14 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss dramatist (congestive heart failure, born 1921)[7]
- December 20 – Andrea Dunbar, English playwright (born 1961)
- December 24 – Gwyn Williams, Welsh poet and novelist (born 1904)
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United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gillian Cross, Wolf
- Cholmondeley Award: Kingsley Amis, Elaine Feinstein, Michael O'Neill
- Eric Gregory Award: Nicholas Drake, Maggie Hannan, William Park, Jonathan Davidson, Lavinia Greenlaw, Don Paterson, John Wells
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Sorley Maclean
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron
Levine, Suzanne Jill (2000). Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-28190-8. p. 377.
Lewis, William (2005). Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism. Lexington Books.