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ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʿAqqād: Quick Facts

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Born June 28, 1889 • Aswān • Egypt
Died March 12, 1964 (aged 74) • Cairo • Egypt
Subjects Of Study Arabic literature
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Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
Egyptian author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
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Théophile Gautier
French author
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Ameen Rihani
Arab American author and political figure
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Lezama Lima, José
José Lezama Lima
Cuban author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Robert Graves
British writer
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
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Severo Sarduy
Cuban writer
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Adonis
Adonis
Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet

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