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Also Known As Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey
Born January 30, 1928 • Colón • Panama
Died April 28, 1995 (aged 67) • Amherst • Massachusetts
Notable Works “A Quality of Violence” • “Anancy’s Score”
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Anita Desai
Indian author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author
John Boyne
John Boyne
Irish author
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Penelope Lively
British author
Portrait of Alan Alexander Milne, circa 1920, wearing a light suit and bow tie, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.
A.A. Milne
British author
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
British author
Claude McKay
Claude McKay
American writer
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Rumer Godden
British writer
Joan Aiken.
Joan Aiken
British author
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian writer
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Cyprian Ekwensi
Nigerian author
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Walter Allen
British writer
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
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Geoffrey Household
British author
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Dorothy Whipple
English writer

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