September 16 – Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral closet dramaLove's Victory receives its first fully professional, publicly staged (filmed) performance, at Penshurst Place in England, where it was probably written about 1618.[2] It is the first known original pastoral drama and thought to be the first original dramatic comedy to be written by a woman.[3]
October 19 – The exhibition Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, opening at the British Library, includes the earliest surviving will of an Englishwoman. Written on "a small, stained sheet of parchment", the detailed testament of Wynflæd is thought to date from the mid- to late 10th century.[4][5]
November 19 – The Prix littéraire des collégiens in Quebec is suspended after five shortlisted authors condemn its sponsorship by Amazon as "promotion of a multinational that harms bookstores".[6]
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Henry Soles Jr., American editor of two books: The Soul Food New Testament and the Children of Color Bible (both published by Tyndale House), 82 (born 1935)[46]
January 24 – Matti Rissanen, Finnish philologist with an interest in Old English, director of the project that produced the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts covering 1,000 years of the English language and used widely since its publication in 1991, involved in the translation of Shakespeare, 80 (born 1937)[53]
Jack Ludwig, Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and the basis of the character Valentine Gersbach in Saul Bellow's novel Herzog, 95 (born 1922)[82]
February 16 – Eleanor Winsor Leach, American academic from whom "Vergilians learned much... on the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, her 1974 book on the Eclogues, her two major [of] Roman literature, art, and society, and many articles on Latin poetry and painting and their reception," 80 (born 1937)[91]
Dariush Shayegan, Iranian cultural theorist and philosopher, winner of the French ADELF award presented by the Association of French Authors in 2004 for his French novel Land of Mirage, 83, (born 1935)[150]
March 23 – Philip Kerr, Scottish writer of historical detective thrillers and children's books, 62 (born 1956)[151]
Georges Hausemer, Luxembourg fiction, travelogue and non-fiction writer, and translator from French, English, Spanish and Luxembourgeois into German, who sometimes worked as an illustrator using the pseudonym 'Theo Selmer, 92, 61 (born 1957)[315]
↑ Ingibjörg Fríða Helgadóttir; Sölvi Þór Jörundsson (2018). "Nærbuxnaverksmiðjan". Bókaormaráð KrakkaRÚV (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
↑ "Na marcha do Prof. Mario Alinei (1926–2018)". Irmandade Druídica Galaica. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018. Correction: We have been informed that, although Prof. Alinei passed shortly before midnight on the 8th to the 9th, technical reasons led the medical team to certify the official date of death on the 9th. We amend then the date and replace 8 for 9.
↑ "Indian historian Pran Nevile passes away at 95". Pakistan Today. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018. Sharing his interaction with the writer, Dr Shah said that Nevile never engaged himself with themes that could have evoked enmity among the two nations, instead, he always celebrated their common heritage of music, poetry and architecture. "His books on history, culture, music and dance were highly celebrated by the connoisseurs of intellectual and literary works. GCU Lahore shall always place Pran Nevile at the highest pedestal among its luminaries," he concluded
↑ Kelly, Donna (22 October 2018). "A Final Salute to Dr. H. G. Jones". History For All the People. State Archives of North Carolina. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
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