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Also Known As Thomas Allen Monro Curnow
Born June 17, 1911 • Timaru • New Zealand
Died September 23, 2001 (aged 90) • Auckland • New Zealand
Notable Works “A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-45”
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Witi Ihimaera
New Zealand author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Douglas Stewart
New Zealand writer
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James K. Baxter
New Zealand poet
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Louis Johnson
New Zealand poet
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
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Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
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Robert Southey
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Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
West Indian poet
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Ernest F. Fenollosa
American orientalist and art critic
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Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet

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