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X-WR-CALNAME:Califa — Novelists 2026
X-WR-CALDESC:Long-form fiction that shaped how the world imagines character
 \, society\, and time.
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UID:novelists-novelist-joyce-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:James Joyce — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Zurich after surgery for a perforated ulcer. Source: ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
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UID:novelists-novelist-orwell-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:George Orwell — death
DESCRIPTION:Died of tuberculosis in London soon after Nineteen Eighty-Four 
 appeared. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
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UID:novelists-novelist-woolf-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260126
SUMMARY:Virginia Woolf — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in Kensington\, London\; a central modernist novelist and 
 essayist. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
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UID:novelists-novelist-joyce-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260203
SUMMARY:James Joyce — birth
DESCRIPTION:Irish modernist born in Rathgar\, Dublin\, on Groundhog Day. So
 urce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
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UID:novelists-novelist-dickens-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260208
SUMMARY:Charles Dickens — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in Portsmouth\; his serial novels defined Victorian popula
 r fiction. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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UID:novelists-novelist-dostoevsky-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210
SUMMARY:Fyodor Dostoevsky — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Saint Petersburg shortly after finishing The Brothers K
 aramazov. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky
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UID:novelists-novelist-morrison-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Toni Morrison — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born Chloe Wofford in Lorain\, Ohio\; Nobel laureate in literat
 ure. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
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UID:novelists-novelist-garcia-marquez-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260307
SUMMARY:Gabriel García Márquez — birth
DESCRIPTION:Colombian novelist born in Aracataca\, the setting of Macondo. 
 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez
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UID:novelists-novelist-achebe-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260322
SUMMARY:Chinua Achebe — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Boston\, Massachusetts\, after a short illness. Source:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
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UID:novelists-novelist-woolf-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260329
SUMMARY:Virginia Woolf — death
DESCRIPTION:Died by drowning in the River Ouse near her Sussex home. Source
 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
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UID:novelists-novelist-garcia-marquez-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260418
SUMMARY:Gabriel García Márquez — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Mexico City\, the foremost voice of magical realism. So
 urce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez
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UID:novelists-novelist-twain-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Mark Twain — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Redding\, Connecticut\, a day after Halley's Comet retu
 rned. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
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UID:novelists-novelist-cervantes-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Miguel de Cervantes — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Madrid\, ten days before Shakespeare\, after a long lit
 erary career. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
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UID:novelists-novelist-nabokov-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Vladimir Nabokov — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in Saint Petersburg to a wealthy\, liberal Russian family.
  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
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UID:novelists-novelist-flaubert-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260509
SUMMARY:Gustave Flaubert — death
DESCRIPTION:Died suddenly at Croisset while working on unfinished fiction. 
 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
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UID:novelists-novelist-hugo-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260523
SUMMARY:Victor Hugo — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Paris\; his funeral drew a vast national procession. So
 urce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
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UID:novelists-novelist-kafka-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Franz Kafka — death
DESCRIPTION:Died of tuberculosis near Vienna\, aged forty. Source: https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
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UID:novelists-novelist-dickens-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610
SUMMARY:Charles Dickens — death
DESCRIPTION:Died at Gad's Hill Place after a stroke\, aged fifty-eight. Sou
 rce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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UID:novelists-novelist-borges-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260615
SUMMARY:Jorge Luis Borges — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Geneva\, the city where he had studied as a youth. Sour
 ce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
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UID:novelists-novelist-orwell-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260626
SUMMARY:George Orwell — birth
DESCRIPTION:Eric Blair born in Motihari\, British India. Source: https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
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UID:novelists-novelist-hemingway-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260703
SUMMARY:Ernest Hemingway — death
DESCRIPTION:Died at his home in Ketchum\, Idaho\, by suicide. Source: https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
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UID:novelists-novelist-nabokov-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260703
SUMMARY:Vladimir Nabokov — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Montreux\, Switzerland\, after a long exile. Source: ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
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UID:novelists-novelist-kafka-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260704
SUMMARY:Franz Kafka — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in Prague to a German-speaking Jewish family. Source: http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
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UID:novelists-novelist-faulkner-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260707
SUMMARY:William Faulkner — death
DESCRIPTION:Died of a heart attack in Byhalia\, Mississippi. Source: https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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UID:novelists-novelist-melville-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260802
SUMMARY:Herman Melville — birth
DESCRIPTION:American novelist born in New York City to a merchant family. S
 ource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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UID:novelists-novelist-baldwin-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260802
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260803
SUMMARY:James Baldwin — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in Harlem\, New York\; novelist and essayist of race and i
 dentity. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
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UID:novelists-novelist-morrison-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260806
SUMMARY:Toni Morrison — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in the Bronx after a brief illness\, aged eighty-eight. So
 urce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
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UID:novelists-novelist-borges-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260824
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260825
SUMMARY:Jorge Luis Borges — birth
DESCRIPTION:Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires\; master of the short fab
 le. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
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UID:novelists-novelist-tolstoy-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260910
SUMMARY:Leo Tolstoy — birth
DESCRIPTION:Russian aristocrat and novelist born at Yasnaya Polyana. Source
 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
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UID:novelists-novelist-faulkner-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260926
SUMMARY:William Faulkner — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in New Albany\, Mississippi\, and rooted in Southern histo
 ry. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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UID:novelists-novelist-melville-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260929
SUMMARY:Herman Melville — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in New York\, largely forgotten before his later rediscove
 ry. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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UID:novelists-novelist-dostoevsky-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
SUMMARY:Fyodor Dostoevsky — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in Moscow\; his novels probed faith\, guilt\, and the mode
 rn psyche. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky
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UID:novelists-novelist-achebe-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261117
SUMMARY:Chinua Achebe — birth
DESCRIPTION:Nigerian novelist born in Ogidi\; Things Fall Apart opened Afri
 can fiction worldwide. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
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UID:novelists-novelist-proust-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261119
SUMMARY:Marcel Proust — death
DESCRIPTION:Died in Paris before revising the final volumes of his novel. S
 ource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust
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UID:novelists-novelist-tolstoy-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261121
SUMMARY:Leo Tolstoy — death
DESCRIPTION:Died at Astapovo railway station after fleeing his estate. Sour
 ce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
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UID:novelists-novelist-baldwin-death-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261202
SUMMARY:James Baldwin — death
DESCRIPTION:Died of stomach cancer at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence\, Fra
 nce. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
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UID:novelists-novelist-flaubert-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261213
SUMMARY:Gustave Flaubert — birth
DESCRIPTION:Born in Rouen\, Normandy\, to a family of physicians. Source: h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
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UID:novelists-novelist-austen-birth-2026@califa.60r.tech
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261217
SUMMARY:Jane Austen — birth
DESCRIPTION:English novelist of manners born in Steventon\, Hampshire. Sour
 ce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
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UID:novelists-rail-2026@califa.60r.tech
DTSTAMP:20261106T104629Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270101
SUMMARY:Novelists — year rail (6 entries)
DESCRIPTION:Year-precision entries are kept off the day grid. See the Calif
 a theme page.
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