Looking for people described as a 'writer' who died in 1939 and 1959 at
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1939
Feb 16th - Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26
Mar 7th - John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (b. 1885)
Apr 11th - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
May 22nd - Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45
Jun 13th - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64
Sep 9th - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9]
Sep 18th - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
Dec 19th - Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70
1959
Mar 30th - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
Jun 30th - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
Jul 15th - Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies
Jul 17th - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
Aug 20th - Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82
Sep 22nd - Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60