Richard Wagner (10 April 1952 – 14 March 2023) was a Romanian-born German novelist.

He published a number of short stories, novels and essays.

Wagner was a member of one of Romania's German minorities, called Banat Swabians, like his wife, Herta Müller[1] He studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University.

He was in 1972 a co-founder and member of the Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary activist society.

He died in a Berlin nursing home on 14 March 2023, at age 70.