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Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Albert Camus

French author

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Prosper Mérimée

French author

Marcel Aymé

French author

Paul Willems

Belgian author

Roger Martin du Gard

French author

Pierre Mertens

Belgian author

Bernard Binlin Dadié

Ivorian author

Octave Mirbeau

French author

Jean-François Marmontel

French author

Tchicaya U Tam’si

Congolese poet

Paul Hervieu

French author

Jules Supervielle

French author

Camara Laye

Guinean author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer