Public Domain Day 2013

Copyrights expire on 1 January each year. The day is celebrated as Public Domain Day.

Authors whose works enter the Public Domain on 1 January 2013 include:

• Alexander Beliaev

Russian science fiction author. Famous for the Amphibian Man and Professor Dowel's Head, both made into Soviet films.

Amphibian Man: the film version was in part shot in Baku and the Caspian, released in 1962 and seen by 65 million cinema goers.

Professor Dowel's Head:

• Ernest Bramah

British author, mostly popular fiction and science fiction. Famous works include What Might Have Been, an anti-socialist science fiction book that influenced Orwell's1984

• Ralph Adams Cram

American Gothic architect and author of texts relating to this

• Nictzin Dyalhis

American fantasy and sci-fi author, famous for short stories in Weird Tales

• Violet Hunt

British feminist author, connected with literary scene. Works include:

The Maiden's Progress, The Human Interest, White Rose of Weary Leaf and Tales of the Uneasy

• Daniil Kharms

Russian Futurist, children's author latterly anti soviet

• Janusz Korczak

Polish author of Kaytek the Wizard soon to be a film

• Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables

• Robert Musil

Austrian author of The Man Without Qualities

• Irène Némirovsky

French Jewish author

• Frank L Packard

Canadian writer of popular adventure stories, including Coogan's Last Run and the Jimmie Dale series

• Bruno Schulz

Polish author, born to Jewish parents, regarded as a great prose stylist

• Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Swiss author famous for travel writing and photography

• Albert Payson Terhune

American dog breeder and author, mostly of novels about dogs

• Carolyn Wells

American author and poet

• Stefan Zweig

Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Left Austria in 1934 and died in Brazil.