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Facts

Born December 6, 1885 • Sweden
Died April 30, 1929 (aged 43) • Växjö • Sweden
Notable Works “Kriser och Kransar”
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Moore
Irish author and composer
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Viktor Rydberg
Swedish author
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Bellman, detail of an oil painting by P. Krafft, 1779; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Carl Michael Bellman
Swedish poet and musician
Almqvist, detail of an oil painting by C.P. Mazer, 1836, in the Nordiska Museet,Stockholm
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
Swedish author
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Artur Lundkvist
Swedish writer and critic
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Harry Martinson
Swedish author
Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish author
Andersson, Dan
Dan Andersson
Swedish author
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Karin Boye
Swedish author
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Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
Swedish author
Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt.
Gil Scott-Heron
American poet and musician
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian author
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Thomas Campion
English poet and musician
Mary Austin.
Mary Austin
American writer
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer

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