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Born August 16, 1932 • Nigeria
Died August 1967 (aged 34) • Nigeria
Role In Nigerian Civil War
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author
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Onuora Nzekwu
Nigerian author and educator
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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A.J.M. Smith
Canadian poet and anthologist
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Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author
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John Pepper Clark
Nigerian author
Okara, Gabriel
Gabriel Okara
Nigerian author
Novelist Ben Okri
Ben Okri
Nigerian writer
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Cyprian Ekwensi
Nigerian author
Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian author and sociologist
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John Munonye
Nigerian educator and novelist
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
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
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
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist

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