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Also Known As Cynthio Vitier
Born September 25, 1921 • Key West • Florida
Died October 1, 2009 (aged 88) • Havana • Cuba
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Roberto Fernández Retamar
Cuban author and critic
Lezama Lima, José
José Lezama Lima
Cuban author
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Severo Sarduy
Cuban writer
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Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
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Cassiano Ricardo
Brazilian poet, critic, and journalist
José Martí
José Martí
Cuban patriot
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuban author
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Virgilio Piñera
Cuban writer
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Reinaldo Arenas
Cuban writer
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Afrânio Coutinho
Brazilian writer and literary critic
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
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
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Théophile Gautier
French author
H. L. Mencken stands on a staircase at his Baltimore home, holding a cigar and leaning on the banister, with framed pictures covering the wall behind him.
H.L. Mencken
American writer
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

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