Writers: Final Exits of 2012

Polish Nobel Laureate Dies
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/02/polish-nobel-laureate-dies.html

Award-Winning New York Times Reporter Dies in Syria
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/02/award-winning-new-york-times-reporter.html

Famous Children's Author Leaves Legacy of Wild Things
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/05/famous-childrens-author-leaves-legacy.html

Science Fiction Icon Ray Bradbury Dead at 91
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/06/science-fiction-icon-ray-bradbury-dead.html

Humorist, Screenwriter Nora Ephron Dies at 71
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/06/humorist-screenwriter-nora-ephron-dies.html

Novelist Gore Vidal Dies at 86
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/08/novelist-gore-vidal-dies-at-86.html

Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien Dies at 73
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2012/10/dissident-vietnamese-poet-nguyen-chi.html

Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien Dies at 73

Dissident Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chi Thien, who memorized his poems while languishing in prison where he was not allowed to write, has died at age 73.

A friend of Thien announced his death this week in Los Angeles, where he had lived since 1995.

Thein was first jailed in 1960 after telling a group of Vietnamese students that World War II ended when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan. Official communist-issued textbooks insisted that the war ended by the Russians defeating the Japanese.

Thien spent most of the next 31 years in jails and prison camps, where he memorized his poems and only writing them down after he was released.

His collection, Flowers of Hell won him international awards and honors.

Thien moved to France and later to the United States, where the Vietnamese community in Southern California saw him as a symbol of freedom.