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Born	April 24, 1845 • Liestal • Switzerland
Died	December 29, 1924 (aged 79) • Lucerne • Switzerland
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize
Notable Works	“Conrad der Leutnant” • “Der olympische Frühling” • “Extramundana” • “Imago” • “Laughing Truths” • “Meine frühesten Erlebnisse” • “Prometheus der Dulder” • “Prometheus und Epimetheus” • “Two Little Misogynists” • “Unser Schweizer Standpunkt”

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Paul Ernst

Paul Ernst

German writer

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

German author

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Günter Grass

Günter Grass

German writer

Bunin

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French author

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Doris Lessing

British writer

Herta Müller, 2009.

Herta Müller

Romanian-born German writer

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Johannes V. Jensen

Danish author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

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Jakob Schaffner

Swiss writer

T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russian author

Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse

Norwegian author

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines