Deaths in January 2006

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1 DeadGoodBooks
Dec 2, 2006, 4:02am

January 4th 2006
Canadian poet Irving Layton died aged 93.

January 7th 2006
Austrian mountaineer and author of Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer died.

January 16th 2006
Leading children’s writer and twice winner of the Carnegie Medal Jan Mark died.

January 30th 2006
American playwright Wendy Wasserstein died. Her play The Heidi Chronicles received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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