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Born June 27, 1924 • Cape Coast • Ghana
Died January 21, 1996 (aged 71) • Accra • Ghana
Founder Ghana Drama Studio
Notable Works “Edufa” • “Foriwa” • “Nyamekye”
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
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
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T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
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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